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PREFACE 


In his Preface the author is, I believe, supposed to justify his infliction of another 
book upon a long-suffering world, and, having mollified the righteous wrath of his 
prospective reader, to pay some small tribute to those whose kindly aid and encourage- 
ment have lightened his labors and made possible the adequate publication of their 
results. 

Any student of ancient oriental civilization who has conscientiously endeavored 
to make the Assyrian sources the basis of Assyrian history need not be told that the 
text of many of these sources was copied from the originals years before the study of the 
language had progressed far enough to make them even fairly intelligible; that such 
translations as have been made from time to time are found scattered through many 
books and journals; that most of the best translators seem to have had but a vague 
conception of what the historian expected of them (they were linguists)—in short, 
that there is a crying need for an up-to-date publication of the Assyrian sources, a 
publication in which the needs of the historian who is not a specialist in the ancient 
oriental languages are constantly kept in mind. (If that sentence does not mollify 
the prospective reader, nothing will.) Therefore, when the University of Chicago 
through its Oriental Institute came into possession of a splendid six-sided prism contain- 
ing the final edition of Sennacherib’s royal annals, in almost as perfect condition as 
when it left the hands of the ancient scribe, it seemed an opportune moment to make 
available in translation a complete body of Sennacherib’s historical and building 
texts (these are almost always combined). The fact that many of these documents 
had already been edited for incorporation into the files of the Assyrian Dictionary 
was an additional incentive for pushing the work. 

Professor Olmstead in his penetrating Assyrian Historiography has adequately 
discussed the nature of the Assyrian historical sources and the royal vanity to which 
we owe their preservation. He deplored the growing tendency among the historians 
to use the final Assyrian edition of a given document, which was the result of perhaps 
a dozen editings during which there was a steady progression from the record of events 
as they occurred to an idealized account that would please the royal fancy. I have, 
therefore, arranged the documents chronologically, following in the footsteps of George 
Smith, the first editor of Sennacherib’s annals, and the one in whose memory this 
work is sent out. 

Mr. F. W. Geers, Fellow in the Department of Oriental Languages, and assistant 
on the Assyrian Dictionary staff, has done me the great service of comparing all the 
transliterations with the texts and has read the proofs. Professors Price and 


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Maynard have read page proof. If this volume is fairly free from typographical] 
errors the credit is due these good friends of mine. My colleagues, Professors 
Breasted and Smith, are hard men to live with. Every time I talk with the latter 
I come away with the titles of half a dozen articles and three or four books that I 
want to start writing at once, and every time I rise from a conference with the former 
I am convinced that the surface of the ancient Orient has hardly been scratched, and 
I want to be up and digging. In spite of the dilemma they plunge me into, they have 
my thanks for their unfailing kindness and constant support. 

The publication of this volume is part of the large program of the Oriental Insti- 
tute, which owes its auspicious beginning to the generosity of Mr. John D. Rocke- 
feller, Jr. For a brief statement as to the origin and purpose of the Institute the 
reader is referred to the Preface (pp. 5ff.) of Breasted’s Oriental Forerunners of 
Byzantine Painting, which is the first volume in the series of Oriental Institute 
Publications. 


TABLE OF CONTENTS 


CHAPTER 


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VIII. 


IX. 


X. 


INTRODUCTION. ON CERTAIN PHASES OF ASSYRIAN STATECRAFT 


THE REIGN OF SENNACHERIB 


THE SOURCES 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRiIsM INSCRIPTION 


Tue HisrortcaL Recorps ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL”’ 


Tue ‘ Brt-KuTAuui”’ on ARMORY 


“THe TEMPLE OF THE NEw YEAR’S FEAs?T’”’ 


MIscELLANEOUS BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS AND H}PIGRAPHS 


EXCERPTS FROM THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLE AND THE HELLENISTIC SOURCES 


AUTOGRAPHED TEXT OF THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM OF SENNACHERIB 


INDEX OF PRoPpER NAMES. 


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CHAPTER I 


INTRODUCTION. ON CERTAIN PHASES OF ASSYRIAN 
STATECRAFT 


When the prophet, endeavoring to discourage the people who were clamoring for a 
change of government, described “the manner of the king” that should reign over 
them (I Sam. 8:16 f.), he became the author of what is perhaps at once the briefest and 
most accurate word picture of an oriental despotism that we possess. Had he added 
a sentence to the effect that the ruler would keep at his side a number of obsequious 
scribes who would magnify his smallest military success into a stupendous victory; 
who would demonstrate their mathematical ability by multiplying—by ten or twenty 
—the number of the enemy dead and captured, or the amount of tribute received from 
those who had warded off the royal wrath by speedy and abject submission; and who 
would, in balanced prose periods or in vague but ringing verse, transform a defeat 
which could not be passed over in silence, or a lucky escape from complete disaster 
in some foolish venture, into a dignified retreat before, say, the winter’s bitter cold or 
the floods of springtime—had the prophet done this he would have given us not only 
the picture, but the gilded frame as well. But he would have spoiled the small chance 
he had of making any impression upon his audience. The vanity of kings has always 
been gently dealt with, in the East and in the West, if for no other reason than that 
it often adds a touch of humor (in the Orient grim humor) to what would otherwise 
be a dull and dreary tale. The historian of David’s reign, as keenly aware of ‘‘ what 
the public wants” as our modern editor, clinches the hold of his already popular hero 
upon the imagination of his readers with that marvelously well-told story of the 
encounter with the giant. Who was interested in the fact that ‘‘Elhanan the son 
of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear 
was like a weaver’s beam” (II Sam. 21:19)? Would any Egyptian have cared, even 
if he had dared, to suggest that his Pharaoh, Ramses II, protested too much about that 
victory of his at Kadesh on the Orontes?! Could one have found an Assyrian who 
would not have been outraged by the Babylonian chronicler’s report of the defeat 
of Sennacherib and the Assyrian army at Halulé ? 

History begins with the vanity of kings. (Will it end with the vanity of the 
demos?) In the earliest records that we possess from the Nile Valley 


We see the king on ceremonious occasions appearing in some state, preceded by four 
standard-bearers and accompanied by his chancellor, personal attendants, or a scribe, and two 
1 A Chinese student in a term paper, using English which was more meaningful than idiomatic, 
put it thus: “Ramses greatly claimed victory.” 
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2 THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


fan-bearers. He wore the white crown of Upper or the red crown of Lower Egypt, or even a 
curious combination of the crowns of both kingdoms, and a simple garment suspended by a 
strap over one shoulder, to which a lion’s tail was appended behind. So dressed and so 
attended he conducted triumphant celebrations of his victories or led the ceremonies at the 
opening of canals or the inauguration of public works. ... . He was a mighty hunter, and 
recorded with pride an achievement like the slaying of a hippopotamus.} 

From the Wadi Maghara (Sinai) relief of King Semerkhet, picturing that monarch 
smiting the Beduin enemies of Egypt’s earliest progress Asiaward, to the walls of the 
temple of Amon at Thebes, where the long annals of Thutmose III’s victories in Syria 
were written down for the eye of god and man, and copiously illustrated, it was kingly 
pride that gave the artist his cue. Similarly the history of Babylonia must be built 
up about, and largely from, the-records of royal achievement, whether these are the 
simple sculptured placque with brief inscription of Ur-Nina, the detailed accounts 
of Gudea’s pious deeds, the grim records of Assurnasirpal’s ‘calculated frightfulness,”’ 
or the plagiarizing annals of the flabby Assurbanipal. Wearisome and even nauseat- 
ing as these records become, nevertheless they give us a true picture of the manner of 
the king that ruled over the peoples of the ancient Near East. 

Once upon a time during the days when we of the modern West were ‘‘making the 
world safe for democracy,” I conjured up the shades of Assurnasirpal, Sennacherib, 
and Assurbanipal from the house of Irkalla in the Land of No-return, to listen to some 
of the serious discussions of the day, such, for example, as that on the rights of weaker 
or conquered nations. I soon read on their faces the question for whose utterance 
they could find no words: ‘‘ You do not mean to say that the smaller and backward 
peoples are to be allowed to determine their own destiny without interference from the 
king and land to whom the great gods have intrusted the rule of the world?” ‘‘ Yes,” 
I replied, “we are beginning to accept this proposition, for we see that it is a corollary 
of another which has long since been formulated: ‘Governments derive their just 
powers from the consent of the governed.’”’ 

But this was too much. The spirits left me, beating a hasty retreat to the under- 
world “‘ where clay is their food and sewer-water their drink,”’ but whither, so far as we 
are aware, democratic ideas have not penetrated as yet. And so I returned to my 
cuneiform documents, there to find recorded the mighty deeds and pious works per- 
formed by the hands of my late guests while they were still in the flesh, to discover the 
principles, if there were any, which governed the Assyrian kings in their endeavors 
to make the god Assur and his rule supreme. 

The Assyrians were part and parcel of the ancient Orient, and the ancient oriental 
outlook upon the world was imperialistic. It was self-evident to the men of those 
days that the normal order of things was the domination of the ‘four quarters of the 
world” by one and only one nation. There were times when this order of things was 
disturbed, when the great gods allowed two and sometimes more nations to be so 

! Breasted, A History of the Ancient Egyptians, pp. 41 f. 


INTRODUCTION 3 


evenly matched in strength that a decision was impossible. Such a state of affairs 
obtained from about 1400 to 1000 B.c. This was the age of diplomacy. The kings of 
Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, and the Hittiteland discovered that they were brothers, 
that boundary lines might be determined by treaty and that it was possible, the gods so 
willing, for nations to live at peace with one another. But no right-minded Oriental 
regarded such a condition of affairs as natural, much less as permanently possible. 
Of course, the theory that the rulership of the whole world was intrusted to one person 
on earth by the god who held the supremacy among the gods of heaven and earth was 
not formulated in a day, nor was its development independent of actual political 
conditions. However, the theory was well established in the thinking of the ancient 
oriental mind long before the Assyrians played any important réle in history. It 
was from Babylonia (more accurately, the old Sumer and Akkad), the home of the 
western Asiatic culture, that Assyria inherited most of her ideas and ideals of govern- 
ment. 

In the Enuma elish, the version of the creation stories edited by the priests at 
Babylon, it was the god Marduk to whom the dominion over all was given. ‘ Nid- 
dinka sarritum kigsat kal gimréti,” which is by interpretation: ‘To thee we give the 
rulership of the totality of the whole universe.” In the prologue to the Code of 
Hammurabi we read: 

When the exalted Anu, the king of the Anunnaki, and Enlil, the lord of heaven and earth, 
who determines the destinies of the land, committed to Marduk, firstborn son of Ea, the domin- 
ion over all mankind, and made him great among the Igigi; when they named the lofty name of 
Babylon and made it great in the four quarters of the world, and erected therein for him an 
everlasting kingdom, whose foundations are established firm as heaven and earth; then did 
Anu and Enlil call me, Hammurabi by name, the exalted prince, who fears god, to bring justice to 
prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil, that the strong might not injure the 
weak, that I might rise like Shamash over the black-headed people, to enlighten the land and 
to further the welfare of men. 

Marduk is recognized as the chief among the gods; Babylon, his city, as the mistress of 
the world; and Hammurabi, the king, as the predestined ruler of all peoples. In like 
manner, in the Assyrian versions of the story of creation, Assur holds the first rank 
among the gods, and it was from his hands that the Assyrian rulers had their power. 

But let us turn for a moment to the political development of Babylonia (using this 
term in its wider sense), for, as already intimated, the theory of world-dominion by 
one state grew out of the actual contest for supremacy in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. 

At the dawn of history we find the city-states of Babylonia in a tooth-and-claw 
struggle with one another. The kings of Kish seem already to have developed the 
idea that they were ‘‘emperors.’’ At any rate we find Mesilim of Kish in the north 
intervening in the chronic strife between Lagash and Umma in southern Sumer, and 
attempting to fix the boundary between these rival cities. However, such interven- 
tion appears to have been exceptional. So long as these local quarrels continued, 


a THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


none of the city-states would be likely to develop dangerous strength, nor would there 
be much chance of a coalition against the overlord. 

In the course of time the ‘‘kingdom of Kish passed to Eanna (Erech).’’ Later the 
“kingdom passed” to another city. Now this city in Akkad was supposed to have 
exercised universal dominion, now that city in Sumer. How accurately the stereo- 
typed phrases of the early Sumerian historian describe the actual course of events 
is still a matter of doubt. One “kingdom” at a time was his theory. It is not until 
we come to Lugalzaggisi of Erech, Sargon of Akkad, and Hammurabi of Babylon 
that the fuller records permit us to trace the steps in the progress toward world- 
rulership. In the case of the first two, although expeditions reaching to the Persian 
Gulf in the east and the Mediterranean in the west are spoken of, it is evident that 
the immediate problem was the subjugation and control of Sumer and Akkad. With 
Hammurabi the situation becomes more complicated. Himself an Amorite on the 
Babylonian throne, he was keenly aware of the political progress that had been made 
in the regions adjacent to the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, and realized that a campaign 
for world-dominion would have to be conducted “‘with the breadth of vision which 
Ea allotted” him and “‘with the might which Marduk granted” him. First of all the 
lesser tribes and nations to the north and east were brought into subjection. Not 
until he had been on the throne close to thirty years did he feel ready to undertake 
the decisive venture, the crushing of Rim-Sin, the Elamite king on the throne of the 
Sumerian city of Larsa. But as soon as victory was attained, Hammurabi turned his 
whole attention to restoring “normalcy” in all of the conquered territory. Temples 
were rebuilt and cults revived, from Sumer in the south to Assyria and Mesopotamia 
in the north and west. Everything was done to bring prosperity to the whole of the 
empire. Hammurabi codified the laws of the land and boasts that this was done in 
the language of the people. He made justice the cornerstone of the national life. 
The strong were no longer to injure the weak; an ideal, by the way, which we find 
expressed in almost exactly the same words more than half a millennium before 
Hammurabi, by the reforming usurper Urukagina of Lagash. But we must not 
think that Hammurabi felt that he was bound by his code of laws. That code he 
received from the hand of the god Shamash for the establishment of justice in the 
empire, for the rulership of which he had been predestined from the foundation of the 
world. From the gods he had his scepter and to them alone was he responsible. 

The idea that a ruler derives his just powers from the consent of the governed, 
whether these were the “black-headed”’ Babylonians or peoples of conquered territory, 
would not have been abhorrent to Hammurabi, it would simply have been incompre- 
hensible. Nor can we imagine any such idea arising in the minds of the governed in 
his day. Throughout the history of Babylonia and Assyria, the kings ruled by the 
grace of god. It was true that people sometimes did rebel and set the ‘‘son of a 
nobody” upon the throne, but such a procedure was contrary to all reason and cer- 


INTRODUCTION 5 


tainly always in defiance of the gods. This brings us to a point which we must never 
lose sight of as we turn to review the barbarous and unspeakable cruelty of the Assyrian 
kings. The oriental ruler had his scepter from the hand of his god. Victory over 
the nations round about was also a gift from him. Conquered peoples took the oath 
of obedience and servitude to the conqueror and the conqueror’s god. That they had 
no choice in the matter made no difference. The Assyrian kings always distinguished 
between enemies and rebels. Enemies were given a chance to submit and become 
tributaries, but rebels (‘‘sinners”’ is a literal translation of the term employed), those 
who “sinned against Assur and the great gods,” were usually exterminated with the 
utmost savagery. 

Shamshi-Adad, the first Assyrian king of whom we possess an inscription which is 
more than a mere dedicatory record, and who lived perhaps shortly after the fall of 
the First Dynasty of Babylon (ca. 1926 B.c.), tells us that he fixed the prices in his city 
Assur, received the tribute of the kings of Tukrish and of the king of the upper country, 
and set up a memorial stela on the shores of the great sea (the Mediterranean). Here, 
almost at the beginning of Assyrian history, we come upon that which the Assyrian 
kings to the very last made their chief occupation, namely, the collection of tribute. 
That the Sumerian and Babylonian “‘emperors”’ were not averse to receiving more or 
less voluntary gifts is to be taken for granted, but the records do not indicate that this 
was first and foremost in their thoughts. Certainly Hammurabi realized that the 
stability of a state depends upon economic health and social justice. Babylonia was 
a land of unsurpassed productiveness, and agriculture and commerce became the 
foundation stones of the state. Assyria, on the other hand, was a poor country, and 
it was no doubt largely on this account that its inhabitants early began to cast covetous 
eyes upon everything that was their neighbor’s. _Hammurabi saw that prosperous — 
cities in Sumer and Akkad were likely to be contented cities. Only late in the game 
did any Assyrian king wake up to the fact that a community, most of whose inhabitants 
had been put to the sword and whose wealth had been carried off to Assyria, was not 
likely to be a valuable nor quiet addition to the empire. But we are anticipating. 

We pass over the weary centuries during which weak Assyrian kings and weaker 
Kassite rulers of Babylonia warred with each other, or married one another’s daughters, 
having come to terms as to dowries and boundaries. We pause only for a moment to 
mention the deeds of Tukulti-Urta I (ca. 1290 B.c.). As is to be expected, we read 
of the tribute exacted from the countries round about. But of greatest moment is his 
capture of Babylon, an event described in the ‘‘ Babylonian Chronicle” as follows: 

Tukulti-Urta returned to Babylon. .... He destroyed the wall of Babylon, and the men 
of Babylon he slew with the sword. The treasures of Esagila and of Babylon he profanely 
brought forth, and the great lord Marduk he removed from his dwelling place, and he carried 


him away to Assyria. The administration of his governors he set up in the land of Karduniash 
For seven years did Tukulti-Urta rule over Karduniash. 


6 THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


We cannot help comparing this procedure with Hammurabi’s methods. Hammurabi 
had sense enough to see that the restoration of temples and cults which had suffered 
from the ravages of war was one of the’surest ways of healing war’s wounds. But 
Tukulti-Urta was true to the Assyrian type and that type may best be described by 
an adjective for which we are indebted to Brander Matthews, osteocephalic. 

Our text goes on to describe the end of Tukulti-Urta. 

Afterwards the nobles of Akkad and Karduniash revolted and they set Adad-shum-usur 
upon his father’s throne. Against Tukulti-Urta, who had brought evil upon Babylon, Assur- 


nasirpal, his son, and the nobles of Assyria revolted, and from his throne they cast him, and they 
besieged him in a house in the city of Kar-Tukulti-Urta, and they slew him with the sword. 


This sort of thing occurred time and again in the later history of Assyria. While the 
king was away on a plundering expedition, his sons and nobles at home would get their 
heads together and decide that a change of leaders was desirable. The limu-lists will 
then have an entry, szhu, ‘‘rebellion,”’ in the capital, followed by a heavy ruling to 
indicate a change on the throne. 

It is not until we come to Tiglath-Pileser I (ca. 1100 B.c.) that we have Assyrian 
records showing carefully planned campaigns with world-dominion as their object. 
And here, too, we meet for the first time the detailed accounts of savagery which 
blacken the pages of Assyrian history to the last. Let me give a few quotations from 
the large Cylinder Inscription. 

With their twenty thousand warriors and their five kings in the land of Kummuhi I fought 
and I defeated them. The corpses of their warriors in the destructive battle like the destroyer 
T hurled down. ‘Their blood in the valleys and on the high places of the mountains I caused to 
flow. Their heads I cut off, and outside their cities, like heaps of grain, I piled them up. Their 
spoil, and their possessions in countless number I brought out. Six thousand men, the remainder 
of their troops, who from before my weapons had fled and had embraced my feet, I took away and 
as inhabitants of my country I counted them [Col. I, 74-88].1 


Here we have the beginning of the deportation of the inhabitants of conquered 
territory. But it is not until the reign of the third Tiglath-pileser (745-727 B.c.) 
that this becomes a carefully planned policy. 

Continuing the quotation from Tiglath-pileser: 


The land of Kummuhi in its length and breadth I conquered and I added it to the borders 
of my land [Col. III, 380-31]. 


His campaigns are summed up in the following words: 

In all forty-two lands and their princes from beyond the Lower Zab, a region of difficult 
hills, unto the further side of the Euphrates, and the land of Hatti and the Upper Sea of the 
West, from the beginning of my rule up to the fifth year of my reign my hand hath conquered. 
I have made them to be under one rule [literally, of one mouth], I have taken hostages from 
them, and tribute and tax I have laid upon them [Col. VI, 39-48]. 


1 See King, Annals of the Kings of Assyria, pp. 36 f. 


INTRODUCTION 7 


But what had he accomplished? The name Assyria spread terror over the nations. 
But there is no evidence that any attempt was made to improve conditions in the lands 
which had been conquered. Security from attack and regular tribute from the 
conquered nations was all world-dominion meant to Tiglath-pileser, and neither had 
been gained. 

Now follows a long period of Assyrian decline with the falling away of dependencies 
and the gradual cessation of the payment of tribute. The next conqueror which 
Assyria produced was Assurnasirpal, whose name is synonymous with ‘‘Schrecklich- 
keit.”’ 

Two hundred and sixty of their fighting men I put to the sword, and I cut off their heads 
and I piled them in heaps. .... I built a pillar over against his city gate, and I flayed all of 
the chief men who had revolted, and I covered the pillar with their skins; some I walled up within 
the pillar, and some upon the pillar on stakes I impaled, and others I fixed to stakes round 


about the pillar... .. Three thousand captives I burned with fire. .... Their young men 
and maidens I burned in the fire. 


These are a few sentences taken at random from his Annals.! Flaying, impaling, 
mutilation, burning, these were the means by which Assurnasirpal sought to establish 
an empire. In a sense he was successful. Tribute came pouring in as in the days of 
old, and Assyria was a name to be spoken in a whisper. From his day to the end of 
Assyrian history, the power of Assyria was felt over all of Western Asia. In time 
even Egypt fell a victim to the Assyrian sword. But in that long period of two and 
three-quarter centuries, there was hardly a moment when an Assyrian king could lean 
back and be comfortable. Revolts were breaking out almost daily, at home and in 
the conquered territories. The death of an Assyrian king was usually the signal for a 
general uprising and refusal of tribute. As time went on, practically all there was to 
Assyria was the army, and tribute and plunder from the conquered regions about all 
there was to support the war machine. What methods did the Assyrians employ 
to hold their empire together? Did it ever occur to them that a sound economic 
policy and social justice might help? If so, the records of it have perished. As 
already indicated, Tiglath-pileser III thought he had found the solution of an emperor’s 
troubles when he revived the policy of deporting the inhabitants of a province at one 
end of the empire and settling them among strangers at the other. Sennacherib 
attempted to solve the age-old problem of Babylon by wiping the city off the map.? 
Though his son, Esarhaddon, by his restoration of this old capital of the South, gave 
promise of better things, nevertheless, ‘‘in him, in spite of mercy shown a number of 
times, there raged a fierceness and a thirst for blood and revenge that remind us forcibly 
of Assurnasirpal. His racial inheritance had overcome his personal mildness.’’ 


1 See King, op. cit., pp. 254 f. 
2 Tukulti-Urta had tried this method earlier. See above. 
3 Rogers, History of Babylonia and Assyria, II, 424. 


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The organization of the conquered territories into provinces of the Assyrian state, 
begun early and carried out methodically in the empire period, if done in an enlightened 
manner, might have resulted in time in the formation of a homogeneous culture. But 
here again there is no evidence that economic and social conditions were ever seriously 
studied. To the very end the problem was not how much a certain province might be 
made to produce, but always how much could be gouged out of that province. In the 
end this amount became small indeed. The disappearance of the free peasant class 
and the exorbitant rates of interest on money are but two of many indications we have 
in the business documents dating from the empire of the unhealthy economic and 
social conditions which prevailed in the homeland itself. And the Assyrian Code, 
dating from about a millennium after that of Hammurabi, gives evidence in almost 
every paragraph of the barbarous severity of the administration of the law. 

I am aware that it is not good form to sit in judgment upon the kings of old whose 
deeds we pass in review; that these worthies must be studied in the light of their own 
time; ete. To which I reply, that to edit the inscriptions of such a man as Sennacherib 
is to pass judgment upon him, If Assurnasirpal, Tiglath-pileser, Sennacherib, and 
the rest insisted on spreading the accounts of their barbarities all over the walls of their 
palaces, why should we refrain from calling them barbarians? That the times in which 
these monarchs lived were strenuous ones none will deny, but if Assyrian justice was 
ever tempered by mercy the accounts of it have been lost. There is not much use in 
speculating as to what might have been, but there is no harm in contrasting the 
haughty imperialism of the Assyrian kings with the humane and paternal imperialism 
of such a Babylonian as Hammurabi. If the proprieties of historical science (or the 
postal laws) keep us from expressing our opinion as to the merits and demerits of 
Assyria’s imperialistic policy, it is possible to find relief for our feelings in the perusal 
of the opinions expressed by some of the victims of that policy. Did not Nahum, 
with his ‘‘ Woe to the bloody city!” put into words the feelings which surged up in the 
heart of the whole ancient world when the doom of Assyria had been sealed? ‘All 
that hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy 
wickedness passed continually?” Could the author of the Book of Jonah, that gospel 
story of the Old Testament, have chosen a better example to illustrate the inscrutable 
ways of providence, than Nineveh, object of god’s grace, recipient of Jehovah’s 
forgiveness ? 


CHAPTER II 
THE REIGN OF SENNACHERIB 


When Sargon moved into his magnificent palace at Khorsabad, there must have 
come to his mind the thought that he had set Assyria’s house in order and that he 
and his land might now look forward with confidence to a season of peace and quiet- 
ness. At Raphia he had shown the cities of Syria that “to take refuge in the shadow 
of Egypt” would avail them nothing. In several hard-fought campaigns he had 
shattered the power of Urartu which had long threatened Assyria from the north. 
And finally, by a happy combination of successful military leadership and shrewd 
diplomacy, he had found himself in possession of Babylonia with the Babylonians 
hailing him as their champion. 

Then suddenly there arose the ery: ‘A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a 
destroyer of nations.”’ Out of the north there were coming troops of barbarous 
horsemen, descendants, perhaps, of the hordes of Gutium which had swept down over 
Sumer and Akkad soon after the days of the elder Sargon, older cousins of the Scythians 
who were to terrify Judah in Jeremiah’s day—the products of the Eurasian grasslands 
which have periodically belched destruction over the civilized areas of the twin 
continents. Our records are obscure, but it would seem as if for a time Sargon failed to 
realize the danger, and that when he did sally forth, it was to meet a violent death. 
In breaking down the kingdom of Urartu, he had opened up the door for the Cimmeri- 
ans, Scythians, and other Indo-European hordes, who were, within the century, to 
exhaust and to overthrow the empire. But, as so often happens in this world of 
ours, the storm clouds blew over. The Cimmerians were turned aside and it was 
not until the days of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal that they became a real menace 
to Assyria. 

However, Sennacherib, who succeeded to the throne on the twelfth of Ab, 705 B.c., 
was in no danger of finding time hanging heavy on his hands. There was the Baby- 
lonian problem. Would Sennacherib proceed to Babylon, take the hand of Marduk, 
and be proclaimed shakkanakku, viceroy, as his father Sargon had done, and thus salve 
the feelings of the haughty Marduk priesthood? Sennacherib had evidently long 
since made up his mind as to the manner in which Babylonian pride was to be handled. 
He did not take the hand of Marduk as viceroy, but he had himself proclaimed 
king of Babylon, and this without using a second name as Tiglath-pileser had done. 
Nor does he seem to have taken the trouble to honor Marduk by calling on him in his 
temple. And so, while the official state records have his name set down as king of 

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Babylon, the Ptolemaic Canon, reflecting the true Babylonian feeling in the matter, 
has the years 705 and 704 marked ‘‘kingless.”’ 

Events moved rapidly. In Babylon, one Marduk-zakir-shumu, labeled ‘‘son of 
a slave” in the King List, was proclaimed ruler (703). He had enjoyed royal dignity 
but a month when Merodach-baladan appeared on the scene and regained the throne 
from which he had been ousted by Sargon back in 709. This time Shutur-nahundu,! 
the Elamite, sent substantial aid in the form of 80,000 bowmen, supported by cavalry 
and under the command of the turtan and “‘left”’ turtan. Such backing brought all 
of the Chaldeans of Bit-Yakin, Bit-Amukkani, and the other petty states on the shore 
of the Persian Gulf, as well as the Aramaeans whose settlements were along the Tigris, 
to the standard of the Babylonian king. Sennacherib’s generals, who were sent on 
ahead, were attacked by the allies in the plain of Kish, and failed to hold their own. 
Messengers were dispatched to the king who was in the vicinity of Kutha. This city 
he immediately assaulted.and captured. Raging like a lion and storming like a tem- 
pest, he now turned his face toward Kish. Merodach-baladan’s courage failed him and 
he fled into the swamps and marshes of Guzummanu, leaving the Elamite generals with 
the allied troops to face the Assyrian. Sennacherib’s victory was decisive. Among 
the captives are mentioned the stepson of Merodach-baladan and the brother of the 
Arab queen, Yat’e. After the spoil had been gathered together, the king marched 
upon Babylon, whose gates swung open on his approach, and Merodach-baladan’s 
palace was made to yield up its treasures. Sennacherib spent five days hunting for 
the fugitive Babylonian king down in the fens, but without bagging his quarry. The 
fields and date groves of the Arabs, Aramaeans, and Chaldeans (one sees from these 
names how the old Akkadian-Babylonian stock had been replaced by new blood) were 
stripped bare, and their produce accompanied the 208,000 captives and correspondingly 
large numbers of horses, mules, asses, camels, cattle, and sheep to Assyria. . Before 
leaving Babylon, Sennacherib set Bél-ibni, “‘a scion of Babylon,’”’ who had grown up at 
the Assyrian court, “like a young hound,’’ upon the throne of Sumer and Akkad. 
Was he tempted to try leniency with the Babylonians? So ended the first cam- 
paign (702). 

But if Merodach-baladan’s whereabouts remained unknown to the Assyrian king, 
he was not idle. His letters and a present reached Hezekiah, king of Judah, who lent 
him a ready ear (II Kings, 20:12 f.).2. The trouble in the west had doubtless begun 
as soon as the reports of Sargon’s violent death reached these regions. And with 
Sennacherib apparently kept occupied for some time after his accession by events in 
Babylonia, it is no wonder that the year 701 saw respect for Assyrian authority rapidly 
disappearing. In the north, the cities had rallied about Lulé (Elulaeus), called king 
of Sidon, though Tyre seems to have been his real capital, while in the south Hezekiah 

1 See p. 49, note 2. 

2 Some would place this embassy before, others after, this date. 


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of Judah, with Egyptian aid in sight, became not an altogether unwilling center 
around which the anti-Assyrian forces rallied. In Ekron the staunch pro-Assyrian 
Padi was thrown in chains and turned over to Hezekiah at Jerusalem, there to be 
further humiliated. 

Such open defiance of Assyria could not be allowed to go unheeded, and Sen- 
nacherib, having subdued the Kassites and Yasubigallians, rude mountaineers to 
the east of the Tigris, in what is designated as his second campaign, now set out 
against the “ Hittiteland,” that is, Syria. Lulé, like many another Phoenician prince 
before and after him, did not wait to see what an Assyrian army looked like, but took 
to his heels, or to be more exact, to his boat, and was soon at a safe distance from the 
scene of operations. Tuba’lu (Ethbaal) was set up as king of Sidon and a number of 
Phoenician cities were turned over to his rule. According to Sennacherib there now 
followed a mad rush of petty kinglets eager to ward off his wrath by speedy submission; 
among these were Mitinti of Ashdod, Budu-ilu of Beth Ammon, Kamusu-nadbi of 
Moab, and Malik-rammu of Edom. But the opposition in the south was not so readily 
broken down. In fact Sennacherib was compelled to do some real fighting. Beginning 
with Ashkelon, where the rebels had deposed Sharru-lu-dari, son of the Rukibti whom 
Tiglath-pileser had placed upon the throne, and set up Sidka as their king, one city 
after the other was attacked and taken. As the Assyrian was on the point of moving 
against Ekron, the Egyptian and Ethiopian armies made their appearance, and at 
Eltekeh the battle was joined. The Assyrians won. Eltekeh and Timnath were 
captured and Ekron’s rebels, who had ousted Padi, were now exposed to the fury of 
the royal wrath. 

Sennacherib next turned his attention to Jerusalem. Siege was laid to the city and 
the daring Hezekiah was shut up “like a bird in a cage.’”’? The Assyrian account of 
the investment of the city is very full and detailed, a sure sign that the victory claimed 
was not at all decisive. 

As for Hezekiah, the Jew, who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong cities, as well as 
the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number—by levelling with battering- 
rams (?) and by bringing up siege-engines (?), I besieged and took (those cities). 200,150 
people, great and small, male and female, horses, mules, asses, camels, cattle and sheep, without 
number, I brought away from them and counted as spoil. Himself, like a caged bird I shut up 
in Jerusalem, his royal city. Earthworks I threw up against him—the one coming out of 
the city-gate, I turned back to his misery. 

The cities of his which I had despoiled I cut off from his land and to Mitinti, king of Ashdod, 
Padi, king of Ekron, and Silli-Bél, king of Gaza, I gave. And (thus) I diminished his land. 

I added to the former tribute, and laid upon him the giving (up) of their land (as well as) 
imposts—gifts for my majesty. 

As for Hezekiah, the terrifying splendor of my majesty overcame him, and the Urbi (Arabs) 
and his mercenary(?) troops which he had brought in to strengthen Jerusalem, his royal city, 
deserted him (lit. took leave). 


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In addition to the 30 talents of gold and 800 talents of silver (there were), gems, cosmetics (?), 
jewels(?), large sandu-stones, couches of ivory, house chairs of ivory, elephant hide, ivory 
(lit. elephant’s teeth), wshu-wood, urkarinnu-wood, all kinds of valuable (heavy) treasures, 
as well as his daughters, his harem, his male and female musicians, (which) he had (them) bring 
after me to Nineveh, my royal city. To pay tribute and to accept (lit. do) servitude, he dis- 
patched his messenger(s). 

We have heard what Sennacherib had to say about the great event of his third 
campaign. We have also reached the most debated of the historical problems con- 
nected with his reign. Sennacherib’s attack upon Jerusalem and Judah is also fully 
reported in the Old Testament. The echoes of a reverse to his army, there recorded, 
reverberated down the centuries. Herodotus tells of the “multitude of field-mice”’ 
which came in the night and ‘‘which devoured all the quivers and bowstrings of the 
enemy, and all the thongs by which they managed their shields”; how ‘“‘next morning 
they commenced their flight, and great multitudes fell, as they had no arms with which 
to defend themselves” (Book IJ, 141). And Byron has helped us to exult over the 
discomfiture of the Assyrian who ‘‘came down like a wolf on the fold.””’ The prob- 
lem is whether the non-Assyrian accounts refer to one or two campaigns of Sennacherib 
in the West, one in 701 and another toward the end of his reign. Opinion has gradually 
shifted round to the two-campaign hypothesis. Without going into details, let us 
set down the pros and cons. 

In the first place, the passage in II Kings 18:13 f. (and Isa. 36:1f.) agrees with the 
Assyrian account in the report of Judean cities captured by Sennacherib and tribute 
paid the Assyrian by Hezekiah. 

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up 
against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to 
the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me; that which thou 
puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah 
three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.! 

In the second place, it is evident from both accounts that there was a siege of 
Jerusalem. According to the Assyrian account this siege, conducted in 701, led to the 
submission of Hezekiah (it does not mention the capture of the city) and his payment 
of tribute. One is led to infer that operations were conducted by the king in person, 
but this is not expressly stated and the reliefs show him seated on his throne before 
Lachish (cf. IJ Kings 18:14). According to the Old Testament account, messengers 
were sent by the king from Lachish to interview Hezekiah and to scare him into 
submission. But without success. On their return to their master they found him 
“warring against Libnah” (II Kings 19:8f.). The appearance on the scene of 
Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, and a second embassy to Hezekiah are now recorded. The 
same insulting speech that had been used before, with but slight variations, is again 
directed at Hezekiah through his representatives at the parley. But Hezekiah, 


‘This and what follows sounds almost as if an Assyrian scribe had written it. 


THE REIGN OF SENNACHERIB 13 


encouraged by the prophet Isaiah, once more refuses to be intimidated. Then 
follows the account of the smiting of the Assyrian host in the night by the angel of 
Jehovah, the departure of Sennacherib to Nineveh, and his assassination there. 

Those who hold the two-campaign hypothesis, and as already indicated, they are 
now in the majority, feel that the difficulties presented by the Old Testament story, 
especially the mention of Tirhakah and the placing of Sennacherib’s assassination close 
upon his return to Nineveh after his disastrous defeat, are most easily overcome by 
assuming a first western campaign in 701 in which the Assyrian king defeated the 
Syrians and their Egyptian allies, devastated the cities of Judah, besieged Jerusalem 
but failed to take it, contenting himself with Hezekiah’s release of Padi and his pay- 
ment of tribute; and a second campaign in 687 or 686, when he met a crushing defeat 
(naturally not mentioned in the Assyrian annals). The Old Testament is supposed to 
have telescoped the two campaigns into one. 

This hypothesis has many things in its favor. Nevertheless, its alternative which 
holds that one campaign, that of 701, is all we need to posit, is easily defended. 

Sennacherib’s annals make no mention of his presence before Lachish, but as 
already indicated, an inscribed relief shows him there. The repeated dispatch of his 
messengers to Hezekiah is right in line with what we should expect to have occurred. 
Although Sennacherib places his defeat of the Syrians and their Egyptian and Ethio- 
pian allies before the siege of Jerusalem, it is altogether possible that this battle, in 
which he may have been fought to a standstill, came at the close of the campaign and 
was the reason for his abandonment of the siege. Hezekiah’s release of Padi and his 
payment of tribute (the latter is placed at the very beginning of the Old Testa- 
ment narrative) may have come soon after the Assyrian’s appearance in southern 
Syria, or any time during the long siege. Or the siege itself may have been the result 
of some overt act of Hezekiah’s inspired by the resistance that Ashkelon and the other 
cities of the plain were offering to Sennacherib. A drawn battle with the allies and 
the raising of the siege of Jerusalem would be basis enough for the story of the 
utter rout of Sennacherib as handed down by the Old Testament and Herodotus.! 
That his campaign was not a brilliant success we may legitimately infer from Sennach- 
erib’s own account of it in the annals. And Bél-ibni’s willingness to listen to 
Merodach-baladan and the Elamites is additional evidence pointing in the same 
direction. That Sennacherib had not met with outright defeat is evidenced, I believe, 
by the silence of the Babylonian Chronicle, which was not slow to record Assyrian 
reverses. And a similar silence as to a defeat of Sennacherib in the West toward the 
end of his reign is not without significance. Would Sennacherib have been content 
to have such a defeat passed over in silence? Is it not more probable that he would 
have ordered his scribes to give to the world such an account as that of his battle of 
Halulé? As for the mention of Tirhakah, he may well have been in command of his 


1The miraculous elements of these accounts do not call for explanation here. 


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uncle Shabaka’s troops in 701, some thirteen years before he became king (so 
Breasted, who finds no insuperable difficulty in assuming one campaign), as Hall, who 
argues for two campaigns, admits.1 

In 700 Sennacherib again marched on Babylon, captured the treacherous Bél-ibni, 
who was sent back to Assyria, chased Shuzubu, the Chaldean, into the southern 
marshes, and conducted such a hot pursuit after Merodach-baladan that this arch- 
enemy of Assyria and the instigator of the trouble, packed up his gods and his people, 
embarked them in ships, and fled to the Elamite city of Nagitu on the east shore of 
the Persian Gulf. In place of Bél-ibni, Sennacherib set his son Assur-nddin-shumu 
on the Babylonian throne and returned to Assyria. So ended the fourth campaign. 

A period of comparative quiet now set in. But royal vanity demanded royal 
campaigns to be recorded in high-sounding phrases on dedicatory cylinders and 
prisms or on the walls of the steadily growing palace at Nineveh. So a raid against 
the villages on the slopes of Mount Nipur (the modern Jdidi DAgh) northeast of 
Nineveh, becomes a fifth campaign (699). But a real military undertaking conducted 
the following year by his generals against Kirua, governor of Kue (Cilicia), who had 
risen in revolt, though recorded on a recently discovered cylinder which was inscribed 
in 694, was later passed over by the scribes who composed the royal annals. This 
campaign is of special interest to us today because it was the one event of Sennacherib’s 
reign of which any extended account was handed down by the Greek and Roman 
historians.2. Some years later (695) the Assyrian generals undertook an expedition 
against Til-garimmu (the Togarmah of the Old Testament), which had figured in 
Assyrian history since the days of Assurnasirpal and which had now for some unknown 
reason merited punishment. 

The thought of Merodach-baladan, alive or dead, was a thorn in the flesh of 
Sennacherib. The escape of that arch-conspirator to Elam must have embittered the 
days and disturbed the nights’ dreams of the Assyrian king. And so we find him ready 
in 694 to strike a blow at the Elamite coast whither Merodach-baladan and his people 
had fled. He had kept Phoenician shipbuilders busy building ships for some time on 
the upper Euphrates and at Nineveh on the Tigris, for a fleet to be used as transports 
for his army. The ships built on the upper Tigris were manned by Tyrian, Sidonian, 
and Cyprian sailors, and floated down that stream to Opis. Here, presumably 
because the lower Tigris was controlled by the Elamites, the ships were pulled up on 
shore, placed on sledges or rollers, and transported overland to the Arahtu canal. Ata 
point downstream, probably where the canal joined the Euphrates below Babylon, 
the Assyrian troops, together with their supplies, were embarked and transported to 
Bab-saliméti, at the mouth of the Euphrates. Sennacherib, not trusting himself to 
such unusual means of transportation, kept on dry land. At the head of the Persian 
Gulf, he and the fleet seem to have had a five-day battle with wind and waves, but 

1The Ancient History of the Near East, p. 491. 2 See p. 162. 


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after Ea, the god of the deep, had been placated by sacrifices which were offered him, 
and by a golden ship, a golden fish, and a golden aluttu which were cast upon the waters, 
the voyage across the gulf to the Elamite side was made without further accident. 
After a stubborn resistance, the cities of the coast were taken. Sennacherib calls it a 
great victory. The captive Chaldeans and Elamites were apportioned like sheep 
among his soldiers. He had his revenge upon Merodach-baladan, although, so it 
would seem, the Babylonian had not lived to see the Assyrian’s great adventure. 

Sennacherib makes no mention of the backfire from this invasion of Elam. But 
the Babylonian chronicler, who never failed to record the things the Assyrian king 
would have been willing to pass over in silence, has some information on the subject. 
“Tn the sixth year of Assur-nadin-shumu, Sennacherib descended upon Elam, destroyed 
Nagitu, Hilmu, Pillatu, Hupapanu and plundered them. Thereupon Hallushu, 
king of Elam, came against Akkad, entered Sippar toward the end of the month Tash- 
ritu, and slew the inhabitants. Shamash did not leave Ebarra. Assur-nddin-shumu 
was captured and carried off to Elam. Six years Assur-nddin-shumu ruled as king in 
Babylon. The king of Elam placed Nergal-ushézib on the throne in Babylon and 
invaded (or, defeated) Assyria.” 

“But the success of the Babylonians and their allies was short-lived. They had 
cut off Sennacherib from his base, and had him at a disadvantage. On the sixteenth 
of Tammuz (the fourth Assyrian month, corresponding to June-July) of his first year 
of reign, Nergal-ushézib took Nippur. The first of Tashritu (seventh month) saw the 
capture of Erech by the Assyrian army, and the seventh of the same month marked 
the collapse of the allied advance. The Elamites aiding, Nergal-ushézib had attacked 
the northward-moving Assyrian army near Nippur, was defeated, captured, and 
carried off to Nineveh (693), where he had a chance to reflect upon the transitory char- 
acter of worldly glory. The defeat of the allies cost Hallushu his throne and life, for a 
rebellion broke out in Elam which ended in his overthrow and the accession of Kudur- 
nahundu, three weeks after the reverse at Nippur. 

Events now moved apace. The defeated, but not hopeless, Babylonians placed 
Mushézib-Marduk on their throne. But Sennacherib was not to be diverted from 
what he had come to know was the real center of the opposition. Late in the year he 
invaded Elam. We hear of the capture and destruction of forty-six cities: but the 
Elamites refused to let themselves be engaged. They were evidently too disorganized 
to warrant taking any risks, so Kudur-nahundu withdrew into the mountains. The 
rapid approach of winter, with rain and snow and bitter cold, was the only thing that 
prevented Sennacherib from following. He returned to Nineveh. 

The Assyrian king was now in dead earnest. Kudur-nahundu was killed in an 
uprising ten months after his accession, and the time to strike another blow was at 
hand. As Sennacherib moved south, the Babylonians hastily stripped their great 
temple of Marduk of its treasures, to buy the support of Umman-menanu, the new 


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king in Elam. Umman-menanu, a man without any sense or judgment (this is the 
Assyrian’s estimate of him), accepted the bribe, mustered his armies, and came on to 
meet the advancing Assyrian host. At Halulé on the lower Tigris the great battle 
was fought. 


With the dust of their feet covering the wide heavens like a mighty storm with (its) masses 
of dense (lit. pregnant) clouds, they drew up in battle array before me in the city of Halulé, on 
the bank of the Tigris. They blocked my passage and offered battle. As for me, to Assur, 
Sin, Shamash, Bél, Nabi, Nergal, Ishtar of Nineveh, Ishtar of Arbela, the gods in whom I 
trust, I prayed for victory over the mighty foe. They speedily gave ear to my prayers and came 
tomy aid. Likea lion I raged. I puton (my) coat of mail. (My) helmet, emblem of victory 
(battle), I placed upon my head. My great battle chariot which brings low the foe, I 
hurriedly mounted in the anger of my heart. The mighty bow which Assur had given me, I 
seized in my hands; the javelin, piercing to the life, I grasped. Against all of the hosts of 
wicked enemies, I raised my voice (lit. cried out), rumbling like a storm. Like Adad I roared. 
At the word of Assur, the great lord, my lord, on flank and front I pressed upon the enemy like 
the onset of a raging storm. With the weapon of Assur, my lord, and the terrible onset of my 
attack, I stopped their advance, succeeding in surrounding them. I decimated the enemy host 
with arrow and spear. All of their bodies I bored through like Humban-undasha the 
field-marshal of the king of Elam, a trustworthy man, commander of his armies and his chief 
support, together with his nobles who wear the golden girdle-dagger and whose hands (wrists) are 
encircled with heavy (thick) rings of shining gold,—like fat steers who have hobbles put on them, 
—speedily I cut them down and established their defeat. I cut their throats like , cut 
off their precious lives (as one cuts) a string. Like the many waters of a storm I made (the 
contents of) their gullets and entrails run down upon the wide earth. My prancing steeds, 
harnessed for my riding, plunged into the streams of their blood as (into) a river. The wheels 
of my war chariot, which brings low the wicked and the evil, were bespattered with filth and 
blood. With the bodies of their warriors I filled the plain, like grass. (Their) testicles I cut 
off, and tore out their privates like the seeds of cucumbers of Siwan (June). Their hands I 
cut off. The heavy (?) rings of brightest gold which (they had) on their wrists, I took away. 
With sharp swords I pierced their belts and took away the girdle-daggers of gold and silver which 
(they carried) on their persons. 

The rest of the nobles, together with Nabd-shum-ishkun, son of Merodach-baladan, who had 
taken fright at (before) my onslaught and had gone over to their side, (these) my hands seized in 
the midst of the battle. The chariots and their horses, whose riders had been slain at the 
beginning of the terrible onslaught, and who had been left to themselves, kept running back and 
forth (lit. going and returning) for a distance of two double-hours:—I put an end to their head- 
long flight. 

That Umman-menanu, king of Elam, together with the king of Babylon (and) the princes 
of Chaldea, who had gone over to their side, the terror of my battle overturned them (lit. their 
bodies) like a bull. They abandoned their tents and to save their lives they trampled the 
bodies of their (fallen) soldiers, they fled like young pigeons that are pursued. They were 
beside themselves (lit. their hearts were torn), they held back (?) their urine, but let their dung 
go into their chariots. 

In pursuit of them, I despatched my chariots and horses after them. Those among them 
who had escaped, who had fled for their lives, wherever they (my charioteers) met them, they 
cut them down with the sword. 








THE REIGN OF SENNACHERIB 17 


This is by all odds the best description of a battle that has come down to us from 
Assyria. The poet who portrayed Marduk’s great encounter with Tiamat and the 
hosts of Chaos did no better. It is also the finest rhetorical smoke-screen that has 
ever been thrown around a monarch retiring with dignity from a situation that had 
proved to be too much for him. Its only serious competitor for first prize is the 
Egyptian account of the victory of Ramses II at Kadesh on the Orontes. 

The Babylonian chronicler’s report of the battle is brief: “‘In an unknown year 
[it was 691], Menanu mustered the armies of Elam and Akkad, made an attack upon 
Assyria at Halulé and defeated Assyria.” 

It was a drawn battle. The Elamites must have suffered frightful losses. 
Sennacherib boasts of the capture of an Elamite general and the son of Merodach- 
baladan. But Umman-menanu was still at large, and Mushézib-Marduk still on the 
Babylonian throne, when Sennacherib returned to Nineveh. 

Sennacherib remained at home all of the next year, assisting, perhaps, in the 
editing of the account of the victory at Halulé. And then, ‘Gott mit uns!” the Elam- 
ite king suffered a stroke, his jaw was locked so that he could not speak. Sennacherib 
was not slow to take advantage of this situation. He hurriedly marched upon Baby- 
lon (689, his eighth and last campaign of which the official records tell us), captured 
Mushézib-Marduk, sent him and the statue of Marduk back to Assyria, while the 
city itself was totally wiped out. 


The city and its houses,—foundation and walls, I destroyed, I devastated, I burned with 
fire. The wall and the outer-wall, temples and gods, temple-towers of brick and earth, as many 
as there were, I razed and dumped them into the Arahtu canal. Through the midst of that 
city I dug canals, I flooded its site with water, and the very foundation thereof I destroyed. I 
made its destruction more complete than that by a flood. That in days to come, the site of 
that city, and its temples and gods, might not be remembered, I completely blotted it out with 
floods of water and made it likea meadow. ... . After I had destroyed Babylon, had smashed 
the gods thereof, and had struck down its people with the sword,—that the ground of that 
city might be carried off, I removed its ground and had it carried to the Euphrates (and on) to 
the sea. Its dirt reached (was carried) unto Dilmun, the Dilmunites saw it, and terror of the 
fear of Assur fell upon them and they brought their treasures. With their treasures they sent 
artisans, mustered from their land, carriers of the basket, a copper chariot, copper tools, vessels 
of the workmanship of their land;—at the destruction of Babylon. To quiet the heart of 
Assur, my lord, that peoples should bow in submission before his exalted might, I removed the 
dust of Babylon for presents to (be sent to the most) distant peoples, and in that Temple of the 
New Year’s Feast, I stored (some) of it in a covered bin. 


Sennacherib had achieved the end toward which he had pushed since the early 
days of his reign. His remaining eight years were apparently years of peace (unless 
there really was another campaign to the West during these years). No doubt the 
king’s generals were sent out on an occasional punitive expedition—we know of one 
against the Arabs—but he himself could now give his undivided attention to the 
improvement of his capital. 


18 THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Plots and counterplots have always disturbed the peace of oriental courts. Queen- 
mothers, wives and concubines, younger sons, all watching every move the king 
makes; priests and astrologers, all sorts of advisers telling him what to do and what 
not to do—is it any wonder that the Assyrian monarchs spent so much time away 
from home?! As old age came on, the matter of the succession was bound to cause 
the king trouble. We are always left in the dark as to just what happened in these 
scrambles for the throne. The victor is not apt to divulge the secret of his success. 
So in the case of Sennacherib. Late in the reign, Esarhaddon seems to have won first 
place in his father’s affections. When he was off on some expedition, his brother (or 
brothers) murdered the father “as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his 
god.” This occurred on the twentieth of Tebet, 681 B.c. Six weeks thereafter 
Esarhaddon had overcome the rebels and seated himself on the throne. 

The building operations in and about Nineveh extended from the beginning to 
the end of Sennacherib’s reign. The old palace, which was much too small and 
plain, was torn down and replaced by a larger and more magnificent one. Wings 
must have been added to it from time to time and in the end the reality caught up with 
the name, “The Palace without a Rival.” In his later years Sennacherib bestowed 
most of his energies upon the great armory, the Bit-kutallu. The streets of the capital 
were widened, straightened, and made to articulate with a royal boulevard sixty-two 
cubits in width. The greatly enlarged city was surrounded by huge walls, an inner 
and an outer, pierced by fifteen magnificent gates. Parks were laid out about the 
city and in them were planted all the trees of mountain and plain, including trees 
that bore wool. And the Ninevite could walk out into a real ‘‘Tiergarten”’ and see 
the birds and the fish and the animals in surroundings that were made to resemble 
their natural habitats down to the minutest detail. Back of the city a large area was 
subdivided into small plots which were assigned to the citizens. The improvement of 
the city’s water supply must have occupied many a month of the king’s time. 

Did Nineveh contain any large temples and if so what did Sennacherib do for them ? 
We hear little of temple building, nothing in most of the cylinder and prism inscrip- 
tions. There is only one temple in which Sennacherib seems to have taken much 
interest, the House of the New Year’s Feast, and this was probably located outside 
the city walls of Assur. And it was in this old capital of the Assyrian state that he 
prepared his final abode, ‘‘the palace of rest, the sepulchre of repose, the eternal abode, 
of Sennacherib, king of the universe, king of Assyria.” 

This is not the place for any discussion of the art and architecture of Sennacherib’s 
public buildings. In fact a discussion would have to be based upon many detailed 
studies, and these are yet to be made. Paterson’s The Palace of Sennacherib, useful 

1 The records of Sennacherib’s domestic troubles, the letters from his reign and that of Esarhaddon, 
have been excluded from our collection of documents. 

See pp. 148 f. for inscriptions telling of restorations of other buildings at Assur, Tarbisi, and Kakzi. 


THE REIGN OF SENNACHERIB 19 


as it is, serves mainly to bring home to one the painful inadequacy of the treatment 
Assyrian art has received. (The French works on Sargon’s palace at Khorsabad, 
published at enormous expense back in the days when public enthusiasm for such things 
could still be aroused, contain many magnificent pictures, but they are not, for the 
most part, Assyrian.) 

On one point, however, a few remarks may be in order. It took many years to 
rid us of the notion that the Assyrian culture was but a poor reflection of the Baby- 
lonian, and to realize that the art of Assyria shows a great advance over that of Baby- 
lonia on which, to a great extent, it doubtless rests. But the pendulum seems to be 
swinging too far in the other direction. We may be inclined to utter a loud amen when 
Hall, speaking of the sculpture of Assurbanipal’s day says: ‘‘In the representation of 
animals and the chase the king’s sculptors shewed a power of observation, a love of 
truth, and a skilful hand previously unexampled in ancient art.’’? But is his footnote 
quite fair, does it rest upon fact ? 

The Phoenician has lost his old glamour now, and we know him for but a sorry imitator 
who could never have made such fine things; the Ionian borrowed oriental ideas to mingle 
- with his Mycenaean art-tradition: he received from Nineveh rather than gave. It has been 
supposed that it was a Syrian art that produced these works... . . . 

When the people of Chaldea, the Aramaeans, the Mannai, the people of Kue and 
Hilakku, of Philistia and Tyre, who had not submitted to Sennacherib’s yoke, were 
snatched away from their lands and made to carry the basket and mold bricks, are 
we sure that they were merely put to the task of carrying out the plans of Assyrian 
architects? Sennacherib takes great pride in his Bit-hilanu, a Syrian portico, which 
was one of the show features of his great palace.2. Was the change from brick to stone 
as building material just an inspiration of Sennacherib? Has Hall ever laid down 
Sennacherib’s building inscriptions and taken up the Old Testament with its account 
of Solomon’s temple? The writer has derived much benefit from such a procedure. 
Sennacherib was not loath to have Phoenician shipbuilders provide him with a fleet; 
why should we think it impossible for him to have borrowed ideas on art and architec- 
ture from every available source? But, as already said, the time is not ripe for a dis- 
cussion of Assyrian art. The inscriptions of Sennacherib will help the student to make 
his special study of the monumental remains that have survived. 


1 Hall, Ancient History of the Near East, p. 515. 2 See p. 97. 


CHAPTER IIT 
THE SOURCES 


The sources are here listed in the order in which they were written, so far as that is 
possible. Considerable uncertainty necessarily prevails since many of the documents 
were not dated by the ancient scribe and we are compelled to fall back on internal 
evidence. Worse than this is the pernicious habit our modern copyists and cataloguers 
have fallen into of calling lines so-and-so of a text duplicates of certain lines of the 
“Taylor Prism” when in reality the text is a duplicate of the ‘ Bellino,” the ‘‘ Rassam,”’ 
or some other cylinder. No attempt at a full bibliography has here been made, nor 
has it been thought necessary even to give references to every publication of a docu- 
ment. Texts will be quoted herein by letter and number. 


A. Texts containing the record of the first campaign only, and presumably written before the 
date of the second campaign 
1. British Museum (hereafter BM), No. 1132038, published by Sidney Smith, The First 
Campaign of Sennacherib 
B. Texts containing the record of the first and second campaigns 
1. The so-called ‘‘Bellino Cylinder” =K 1680, published by Layard, Inscriptions in the 
Cuneiform Character from Assyrian Monuments, Plates 63f., and Smith, History of 
Sennacherib, pp. 1f., 24f., 43 f., 140 f. Dated in the imu of Nabi-li’u (702 B.c.) 
C. Three campaigns 
1. The “‘Rassam Cylinder” =87-7-19, 1, published, in part, by Evetts in Zeitschrift fiir 
Assyriologie, III, 311f. Dated in the limu of Metunu (700 B.c.) 
. Cylinder 80-7-19, 2 
. Cylinder 79-7-8, 302 ¢ variants only noted by Evetts 
. Cylinder 81—2-4, 42 
. Cylinders, VA (Vorderasiatische Abteilung der Kénigl. Museen zu Berlin) 7616, 7508, 
7509, published in Keztlschrifttexte aus Assur, historischen Inhalts (hereafter KAH), 
II, No. 120 
, Four campaigns 
1. K 4492, published C7’, XXVI, Plate 39; earlier by Meissner and Rost, Die Bawin- 
schriften Sanheribs (hereafter M-R), Plate 13 
2. Fragment of Prism, VA 8436, published KAH, II, No. 121. (This seems to be a dupli- 
cate of D1.) 
K. Five campaigns 
1. BM, No. 103,000, published CT, XXVI, Plates 1-37. Dated in the limu of Ilu-ittia 
of Damascus (694 B.c.). Variants 102,996, and K1674 on Plate 38. 
2. Bull Inscription, published, Layard, Inscriptions, Plates 61 f. 
3. Rock Inscriptions on the Jidi Dagh, published, King, PSBA, XXXV (1918), 66 f. 
Panels I-VIII given as a, b, c, ete. 


Or Be CO bb 


is) 


20 


THE SOURCES 21 


F. Six campaigns 


1. 
2. 


Bull Inscriptions, published IIIR, 12 f. (=Bull Inscription No. 4 of Smith, History) 
Bull Inseriptions, 1, 2, and 3 of Smith, History, pp. 3 f., 30f., 51 f., 67 f., 86 f., 88 f. 


G. Seven campaigns 
H. Eight campaigns 


is 


5. 


6. 


The “Taylor Prism,” published IR, Plates 37f., and in the different editions of 
Delitzsch’s Assyrische Lesestiicke. Dated in the limu of Bél-emuranni (691 B.c.) 
Variants noted by Bezold in KB, II, 80f., are given as Hla (=H2), H1b (=H3), ete. 


. The Oriental Institute Prism, herein published. Dated in the limw of Gahilu (689 B.c.) 
. The Bavian stela inscriptions, published IITR, Plates 14f. (A collated text of IL. 43-54 


is given in King, Records of the Reign of Tukulti-Ninib, I, 114 f.) 


. The Nebi Yunus Slab, published IR, Plates 43 f., and Smith, History of Sennacherib, 


pp. 7f., 39f., 68f., 86f., 102f., 111f., 129F. 

Broken Alabaster tablet, VA, 3310, published in Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkméiler 
(hereafter VS), I, No. 77. 

K2673, Seal of Tukulti-Ninib, republished by King in op. cit. (under H3), pp. 163 ff. 


T. Miscellaneous building inscriptions and epigraphs 


. Bull inseription, published by Layard, Inscriptions, Plates 38 f. 

. Foundation stela (VA 8248), published KAH, II, No. 122 

. Inscription on limestone block (Assur, 10983), published in KAH, II, No. 117 
. Inscription on limestone block (Assur, 10936), published in KAH, II, No. 118 
. Inscription on limestone block (Assur, 11047), published in KAH, II, No. 119 
. Inscription to go on a foundation stela (?), K 1356, published M-R, Plate 16 
. Octagonal Stone Prism, VA 8254, published KAH, II, No. 124 

. K 1635, published M-R, Plate 15 

. Building inscriptions, published IR, 7, E 

. Building inscriptions, published M-R, Plate 10 

. Building inscriptions, published M-R, Plate 9 

. Building inscriptions, published M—R, Plate 10 

. Inscriptions on door-sockets, 81-2-4, 1 and 2; see M-R, p. 45 and Plate 11 

. Inscriptions on granite slab, published IR, 6, No. VIII, a 

. Inscriptions on limestone slab (VA 3132), published VS, I, No. 75 

. Brick inscriptions from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 48 

. K 5418a, published M-R, Plate 14 

. Inscription on limestone block from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 73 

. Inscription on limestone block from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 74 

. Brick inscription, from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 72 

. Brick inscription from Assur, published KAH, II, No. 123 

. Inscription on limestone block from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 43 

. Inscription on limestone block from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 44 

. Inscription on limestone block from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 45 

. Brick inscription from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 46 

. Brick inscription from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 47 

. Brick inscription from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 49 

. Vase inscription from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 50. 

. Inscription on slabs from wall of Nineveh, published IR, 6, No. VIII B 


22 THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


30. Stela inscription from Nineveh, Smith, History, pp. 161 f.; M-R, 68f.; Paterson, The 
Palace of Sennacherib, Plates 3 and 4 
31. K 2662, Rev. published M-R, Plate 12 
32. Brick inscription from Nergal temple at Tarbisi (Sherif Khan), published, IR, 7 C; 
duplicates VA 3215, published VS, I, No. 74 
33. Inscription on slabs from same place, published IR, 7 D 
34. Cone inscription from same place, published ITIR, 3, 13 
35. Brick inscription from the temple at Kakzi, published, IR, 7 H 
36. A collection of epigraphs, published IIIR, 4, No. 4 
37. Epigraph, Sennacherib at Lachish, published Paterson, op. cit., Plates 74-76 
38. Epigraph over city of Dilbat, published Paterson, op. cit., Plate 13 
39. Epigraph over city of Bit-Kubatti, published Paterson, op. cit., p. 12 
40. Epigraph over unknown city, published Paterson, op. cit., Plate 39 
41. Epigraph over the king in a chariot, published Layard, Inscriptions, Plate 75, E 
42, Epigraph over Sennacherib receiving tribute of the marshes, published Paterson, 
ODSCUCED. Lo 
43. Epigraph over camp of Sennacherib, published Paterson, op. cit., Plate 8 (38) 
A4, Epigraph over tent of Sennacherib, published Paterson, op. cit., Plates 74-76 
J. Non-Assyrian Sources 
. Excerpts from the Babylonian Chronicle, CT, XXXIV, Plates 46 f. 
. Excerpts from Eusebius’ Chronicle, quoting Polyhistor (see Schnabel, Berossos, pp. 
268 f.); and Abydenos (see Cory’s Ancient Fragments [new ed., 1876], p. 89) 


Noe 


The abbreviations of determinatives used in the transliterations of the following 
chapters are those adopted for the Assyrian Dictionary and are self-explanatory. 
Brackets inclose restorations; broken brackets indicate that part of the sign is 
preserved. The words inclosed in parentheses in the translation are either variant 
or literal renderings, or such additional words as are required by our idiom to make 
the sense of the original intelligible. 


CHAPTER IV 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION (H2) 
THE FINAL EDITION OF THE ANNALS 


Col. I 


1. 


2. 


10. 


ibe 


12. 


13. 


14. 
15. 


m 4Sin(HN-ZU)-ahé?'-eri-ba 
raba(a)! 


Sarru dan-nu sar kis-Sa-ti Sar "A sSur*? 


Sarru 


. Sar kib-rat irbittim (tim)? ri-é-um it-pi- 


sus 


. mi-gir lan! rabati?! na-sir kit-te 


. ra--1m_-Mi-Sa-ri_e-pis %-sa-a-ti 
. a-lik tap-pu-ut a-ki-1 sa-hi-ru dam-ka- 


a-ti 


. td-lum git-ma-lum zi-ka-ru kar-du 
. a-sa-rid kal mals-ki rab-bu la-?-it 


. la ma-gi-ri mu-sab-ri-ku za-ma-a-ni 


4A sSur sadi(a) rabi(d) sarru-ut la 
Sa-na-an 
u-Sat-li-ma-an-ni-ma ela gim-ri® 


a-sib pa-rak-ki t-sar-ba-a “kakké?'-ia 


ul-tu. tamti(A-AB-BA) e-li-ni-ti Sd 
Sa-lam’ *Samsi(&) 

a-di tam-tim Sap-li-ti 84 si-it 4Samsi (8) 
gim-ri_ sal-mat kakkadi t-sak-nis Se- 
pu-u-a 


1H1 and El, om. 
2F1, ti. 


*H1, Su, 


1 


2. 


10. 


1b 


12. 


13. 


14. 
15. 


4H1 and E1, ma-al. 


Sennacherib, the great king, 


the mighty king, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria, 


. king of the four quarters (of the 


earth); the wise ruler (lit. shepherd, 
pastor’), . 


. favorite of the great gods, guardian 


of the right, 


. lover of justice; who lends support, 
. who comes to the aid of the needy, 


who turns (his thoughts) to pious 
deeds; 


. perfect hero, mighty man; 
. first among all princes, the powerful 


one who consumes 


. the insubmissive, who strikes the 


wicked with the thunderbolt; 

the god Assur, the great mountain, 
an unrivaled kingship 

has entrusted to me, and above all 
those 

who dwell in palaces, has made 
powerful my weapons; 

from the upper sea of the setting sun 


to the lower sea of the rising sun, 

all humankind (the black-headed 
race) he has brought in submission 
at my feet 


5 H1 and E1, gi-mir. 
§ Kl, Sul-mu. 


24 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. I 


16. 


LG: 
18. 


1. 
20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 
26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


33. 
34. 


30. 


wu mal-ki sip-su-ti e-du-ru ta-ha-ze 


da-dd-me-su!-un 212-21-bu-ma 
ki-ma su-din-ni issur® ni-gi-ts-st 


e-dis vp-par-su3 a-sar la >a-a-ri 

i-na mah-ri-e gir-ri-ia sé "Marduk 
(SIT)-apla(A)-iddina(na)4 

Sar 'Kar-4dun-id-as a-di ummdnate*! 
Elamti*' 

ri-si-Su i-na ta-mir-ti Kis’ as-ta-kan 
tahta-su 
kabal 


karas-su 


1-na tam-ha-ri St-a-tu_e-zib 


e-dis ip-par-sid-ma na-pis-tus e-ti-ir 


»narkabati?! sisé?! “su-um-bi parér! 
sa i-na kit-ru-ub ta-ha-zi v-mas-si°-ru 


tk-Si-da_ kdatd*-ai a-na ekalli-Su sd 
ki-rib 

Babili*i(K A-DINGIR-RA) ha-di§ e- 
ru-um-ma ap-te’-ma 

bit ni-sir-ti-Su hurdsa kaspa u-nu-ti’ 
hurdsi kaspi 

abna a-kar-tu mimma Sum-su busd 
makktira 

la ni-bi® ka-bit-tu biltu sigréti (SAL- 
SAB-E-GAL)?'-Su | 
amtiré(GAL-TE)?' ™man-za-az pa-ni 
amzammer é?! 

fzammerati”! si-hir-tt wm-ma-a-ni 
ma-la ba-si-t mut-tab-bi-lu-ut ekallu- 
us 

u-se-sa-am-ma_ Sal-la-tis® am-nu t-na 


e-muk 4A sSur 


11, Su. 4H1 and El, mdMarduk 

2El.om, (4AMAR-UD)-apla(TUR- 
: US)-iddina(na). 

8 El, si. 


16. 


ii 
18. 


iW ED 
20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


7% 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


5 HI, 


6 H1 and E1 insert e. 
OVeli hs tite 


and mighty kings feared my war- 
fare— 

leaving their abodes and 

flying alone, like the sudinnu, the bird 
of the cave (? cliffs), 

to (some) inaccessible place. 

In my first campaign I accomplished 
the defeat of Merodach-baladan, 
king of Babylonia, together with the 
army of Elam, 

his ally, in the plain of Kish. 


In the midst of that battle he forsook 
his camp, 

and made his escape alone; (so) he 
saved his life. 


5. The chariots, horses, wagons, mules, 


which he left behind at the onset of 
battle, 

my hands seized. Into his palace, 
which is in 


Babylon, joyfully I entered. 


I opened his treasure-house:—gold, 
silver, vessels of gold and silver, 
precious stones of every kind (name) 
goods and property 

without limit (number), heavy trib- 
ute, his harem, 

(his) courtiers and officials, singers, 
male and 


. female, all of his artisans, 
. as many as there were, the servants of 


his palace, 


I brought out, I counted as spoil. In 
the might of Assur 
Se. 8’ Text of Hl and KB 


IT, ba, but Delitzsch, 
Lesestiicke, bi. 
PIL, tite 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 


Col. I 


36. 
37. 
38. 
39. 
40. 
41. 
42. 
43. 
44, 
45. 


46. 


47. 
48. 


49. 
50. 


51. 
. gammalé”! alpé?! w si-e-ni® sd la ni-bi 


53. 


54. 


béli-ia 75! aldni?'-su dan-nu-ti bit 
darani?”? 

§é 'Kal-di WU 420 aldni?® sihritir? 
al-me aksud(ud)8 


Sd li-me-ti-Su-nu 


as-lu-la Sal-la-sun 
amUr-bi *"A-ra-mu &Kal-du 


Sé ki-rib Uruk Nippur™ Kis ¢Har- 
sag-kalam-ma? 
Kutu™’ Sippara®* a-di mar é”! ala 


bél hi-it-& u-Se-sa-am-ma_ Sal-la-tis 
am-nu 

i-na ta-ta-ar-ti-ia “TT u---mu-na 
amRi-hi-hu “La-dak-ku U-bu-du 

am Kib-ri-e “" Ma-la’-hu ¢Gu-ru-mu 
amU-bu-lum™ «™Da-mu-nu ™Gam-bu- 
lum 

om FT71-1n-da-ru “Ru--us-a “"Bu-ku-du 
am Ha-am-ra-nu? °Ha-ga-ra-nu “Na- 
ba-tu 

amTj->-ta-a0-%, A -ra-mu la kan-8ti"'-ti 


mit-ha-ri§ ak-Sud(ud) 208,000 nisé?! 
sthir rabi 
ztkaru Ww? zinnistu sisé?’ paré?! imér év! 


Sal-la-tu ka-bit-tu as-lu-la a-na ki-rib 
1A SSur** 

i-na me-ti-ik gir-ri-ia §4"4N abti(PA)- 
bél-Sumate”! 


1 Text of H1, 76. SHia, i. 
2 H1 and E1, add (ni). 
3 H1, ak-sud(ud). 


4H1 and El, su-wn. 


8 HI, 2. 


36. 
37. 
38. 
39. 
40. 
41. 
42. 
43. 
44. 
45, 
46. 


47. 
48. 


49. 


7H, lu, Hla, ru. 


9X1 and H1b, insert a. 


5 H1, om. det. ¢ before and adds det. * after name. 


25 


my lord, 75 of his strong walled cities, 


of Chaldea, and 420 small cities 

of their (within their 
borders), I surrounded, I conquered, 
their spoil I carried off. 

The Arabs, Aramaeans, and Chal- 


environs 


deans, 

who were in Erech, Nippur, Kish, 
Harsagkalamma, 

Kutha and Sippar, together with the 
citizens, 

the rebels (lit. sinners), I brought 
out, as booty I counted. 

On my return (march) the Tu’muna 
Rihibu, Yadakku, Ubudu 

Kibré, Malahu, Gurumu, 

Ubulu, Damunu, Gambulu 


Hindaru, Ru’ta, Bukudu, 
Hamranu, Hagaranu, Nabatu, 


Litéu, Aramaeans (who were) not 
submissive, 

all of them I conquered. 
people, great and small, 


208,000 


. male and female, horses, mules, asses, 
. camels, cattle and sheep, without 


number, 


. aheavy booty, I carried off to Assyria. 


. In the course of my campaign, I 


received from Nabi-bél-shumate, 


10 Til, om: 
“HI adds u. 
121, wu. 


18 EL, sénicol, 


26 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. I 


55. 


56. 


57. 


58. 


63. 


64. 
65. 


66. 


67. 


68. 


69. 


fAUR 


72. 
73. 


anki -pi°Ha-ra-ra-te! hurdsa kaspa ’mu- 
suk-kan-ni 

rabite?’ iméré?’ gammalé?' alpé?’ ua 
si-e-ni? 

ta-mar-ta-su ka-bit-tu. am-hur ba-hu- 
la-te® 

¢Hi-rim-me “'nakri ag-si i-na “kakké?! 
u-Sam-kit-ma 


. e-du ul e-zib pag-ri-su4-un i-na ga-si-sr 
. a-lul-ma si-hir-tr® ali t-sal-me na-gu-% 


. St-a-tu a-na es-sti-ti as-bat istén(en) 


alpu 


. 10 immeré?*? 10 imér kardni 20 imér 


suluppt 
ri-Se-ti8-Su a-na ildni?'(ni) 'Assurk* 


bélé?'-ia U-kin dda-ri-sam 

i-na Sané(e) gir-ri-ia 4A SSur be-li 4-tak- 
kil-an-ni-ma 

a-na mat °"Kas-si-1 u mat “Ia-su-bi- 
gal-la-av 

$é ul-tu ul-la a-na Sarrdni?™ abé?'-ia 
la kit-nu-su8 

lu al-lik ki-rib hur-sa-a-ni zak-ru-te 


ekil nam-ra-st t-na sist ar-kab-ma 


vnarkabat sépat-ia i-na_ ti-ck-ka-te® 
U-Sa-A8-8t 


. as-ru Sup-su-ku i-na sépad@-ia ri-ma- 


nis at-tag-gis 
eBit-Ki-lam-za-ah ‘Ha-ar-dis-pi 


eBit-Ku-bat-ti = aldni?™9-Su-nu bit 
dtiradni?'(nz) 
rl Wt Wg 5 Hla, om. 


2 El, sénicol, 
3’ H1 and E1, te. 


4H1 and E1, Su. 8 Hl, Su. 


55. 
56. 
‘afte 
58. 


59. 
60. 


61. 
62. 
63. 


64. 
. In my second campaign, Assur my 


66. 
67. 
68. 
69. 
70. 
71. 


72. 
73. 


6 H1 and E1, te. 
7H1 and E1, add (nz). 


governor of the city of Hararate, 
gold, silver, great musukkani-trees, 
asses, camels, cattle and sheep, 
as his onerous contribution. The 
warriors of 

Hirimme, wicked enemies, I cut down 
with the sword. 

Not one escaped. Their corpses 

I hung on stakes, surrounding the city 
(with them). 

That district (province) I reorgan- 
ized: One ox, 

10 lambs, 10 homers of wine, 20 
homers of dates, 

its choicest, (as gifts) for the gods of 
Assyria, 

my lords, I established for all time. 


lord, encouraged me, and 

against the land of the Kassites and 
the land of the Yasubigallai, 

who from of old had not been sub- 
missive to the kings, my fathers, 


I marched. In the midst of the high 
mountains 
I rode on horseback where the terrain 


was difficult, 
and had my chariot drawn up with 
ropes: 
where it became too steep, I clam- 
bered up on foot like the wild-ox. 
The cities of Bit-Kilamzah, Hardishpi 
and Bit-Kubatti, their strong, walled 
cities, 

9 H1 and E1, insert a. 

10 H1, adds (nz). 


Col. 


74, 


75. 
76. 


77. 


78. 


79. 


80. 


81. 


82. 


Col. 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 


I 


dan-nu-ti' al-me aksud(ud) nigé?! sisé?! 


paré?' iméré?! alpé?! wt si-e-ni? 

ul-tu kir-bi-Su-un %-se-sa-am-ma Ssal- 
la-tig am-nu 

wu aldni?s-su-nu sihriti?’ sé ni-ba la 
1-8-4 

ab-bul ak-kur v%-se-me kar-mes bit séri 
kul-ta-ri 


mu-sa-bi-su-nu i-na> girrt ak-mu-ma 
ti-tal-lig 
u-Se-me ui-tir-ma °Bit-" Ki-lam-za-ah 


Su-a-tu a-na al® bir-tu-ti as-bat 


eli Sé tém(um)? pa-ni déirdni?'-Su 
u-dan-nin-ma 


II 


. nse?! matate ki-sit-ti kata*“-ca ina libbi8 


t-Se-Sib 


. nisé?? mat *Kas-si-i u mat “Ta-su-bi- 


gal-la-av 


. &é la-pa-an “kakké?!-1a ip-par-sid-du 
. ul-tu ki-rib Sadi(i) %-Se-ri-dam-ma 


. i-na “Har-dis-pi *Bit-Ku-bat-ti v-sar- 


me 


. i-na kata osi-ul-rési-ia ¢"bél prhati 


cAr-rap-ha 


. am-nu-sus-nu-ti nara %-se-pis-ma 
. li-d-tum ki-sit-ti kdtad™ sda eli-Su-un 


. as-tak-ka-nu si-ru-us-su V-sa-as-tir-ma 


171, te. LAs bey & 
2F1, sénicol, 5 El, ina. 
3 H1, adds (nz). § K1, om. 


74 


75. 
76. 


77. 


78. 


to, 


80. 


81. 


82. 


. I placed (lit. counted) them. 


27 


I besieged, I captured. People, 
horses, 

mules, asses, cattle and sheep, 

I brought out from their midst and 
counted as booty. 

And their small cities, which were 
numberless, 

I destroyed, I devastated, I turned 
into ruins. The houses of the steppe, 
(namely) the tents, 


wherein they dwelt, I set on fire and 


turned them into (a mass of) flames. 
I turned round, and 

made that Bit-Kilamzah 
fortress,— 

I made its walls stronger than they 
had ever been before,— 


into a 


. and settled therein people of the 


lands my hands had conquered. 


. The people of the land of the Kas- 


sites and the land of the Yasubi- 
gallai, 


. who had fled before my arms, 
. I brought down out of the mountains 


and 


. settled them in Hardishpi and Bit- 


Kubatti. 


. Into the hand(s) of my official, the 


governor of Arrapha, 
Thad a 
stela made, and 


. the might of my conquering hand 


which I had 


. established upon them, I had in- 


scribed thereon. 
7E1, a-me. 
8 H1 and E1, lib-bi. 
9 HI, Su. 


28 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. II 


10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 


14. 
. gim-ri mati-su rapastim(tim) ktimas 2 


16. 
ING 


18. 
19; 


20. 
21. 


22. 
23. 


24. 


26. 
27. 


28. 


i-na kir-bi ali ul-ziz pa-an ni-ri-va 
a-tir-ma 


a-na ‘El-li-pi as-sa-bat har-ra-nu 
el-la-mu-ti-a "Is-pa-ba-a-ra sarru-sti'- 
un 

aladni?'-Su dan-nu-tt bit ni-sir-ti-Su 


u-mas-sir-ma a-na ru-ki-e-ti? in-na-bit 


as-hu-up 
¢Mar-i-bis-ti “A k-ku-ud-du aladni?'(nt) 


bit Sarru-ti-su a-di 34 aldni?! sthritr?! 


Sa li-me-ti-Su-nu al-me aksud(ud)* ab- 
bul? ak-kur 

i-na® girrt ak-mu nisé?’ sthir rabi 
zikaru u zinnistu 

sisé?! paré?’ iméré?’ gammalé”! 

alpé?' wv si-e-ni’ a-na la mi-nam as-lu- 
lam-ma 

a-di la ba-si-i t-sa-lik-si-ma %t-sa-hir® 
mat-su 
“Si-si-ir-tu 
aldni?'(ni) 
dan-nu-ti a-di aldni?’ sihritr?? 


¢Ku-um-ma-ah-lum? 


Sa 
li-me-ti-Su-nu 


. Bit-Ba-ar-ru-W! na-gu-u® a-na gi- 


mir-ti-Su 

ul-tu ki-rib mati-su ab-tuk-ma elv. mi- 
srr Assur® 

u-rad-di °El-en-za-as a-na al sarru-ti!- 
ti 

uw dan-na-at na-gi-e si-a-tu as-bat-ma 


1 H1 and E1, Su. 
2 Hl, te. 

3 H1, ki-ma. 
4H1, ak-Sud(ud). 
5 HI, bu-ul. 


6 E11, ina. 


TEI, sénicol, 


107}1, om. 


10. 


Le 


12. 


13. 


14. 
. Over the whole of his wide land I 


16. 
If: 


18. 


bE 


20. 
Jal 


22. 


23. 


24. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


8 Hla and E1, -ah-hi-ir. 
9 See p. 68, n. 1. 


In the midst of the city 1 set it up. 
The front of my yoke I turned (that 
is, I turned about) and 

took the road to the land of the Elippi. 
Before me (my approach) Ispabara, 
their king, 

forsook his strong cities, his treasure- 
houses (cities), 

and fled to distant (parts). 


swept like a hurricane. 

The cities Marubishti and Akkuddu, 
his royal residence-cities, together 
with 34 small cities 

of their environs, I besieged, I cap- 
tured, I destroyed, I devastated, 

I burned with fire. The people, 
great and small, male and female, 
horses, mules, asses, camels, 

cattle and sheep, without number, 
I carried off. 

I brought him to naught, I diminished 
his land. 

Sisirtu and Kummahlum, 


strong cities, together with the small 
cities of their environs, 


. the district (province) of Bit-Barrd 


in its totality, 

I cut off from his land and added it to 
the territory (lit. border) of Assyria. 
Elenzash I turned into the royal city 


and stronghold of that district. 


El, wu. 
2 H1 and EK, w. 
13 AI adds ki. 


iA, om. 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 29 


Col. IT 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


33. 


34. 


30. 


36. 


Oo”. 


38. 


aSF 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 
tt. 


Sum-su mah-ra-a ti-na'-kir-ma °Kar- 
md Sin-ah é?'-eriba* 
at-ta-bt ni-bit-su 
Sit-ti kdtdt-ia 


niséP’ matdti® ki- 


i-na lib-bi v%-se-sib i-nat "Sti-ut-r est-ta 
abél pihatt ‘Har-har am-nu-ma v- 
rap-pis ma-a-tt 

i-na ta-ia-ar-ti-ia sé 'Ma-da-ai® ru- 
ku-te? 

Sd i-na Sarrdni®® abé?'-ia ma-am-man 
la 1s-mu-% 


zi-kir mati-su-un man-da-ta-su-nu ka- 
bit-tu am-hur 
a-na ni-ri be-lu-ti-ia %-Sak-ni-su-nu-ti 


29. 


30. 


ol. 
32. 


33-35. On my return, I 


30. 


I changed its former name, 


calling its (new) name Kar-Sennach- 
erib.!® Peoples of the lands my hands 
had conquered 

I settled therein. To my official, 
the governor of Harhar, I handed it 
over (counted it). Thus I extended 
my land. 

received the 
heavy tribute 

of the distant Medes, whose name no 
one among the kings, my fathers, 
had (ever) heard. 


To the yoke of my rule I made them 
submit. 


i-na Ssal-st gir-ri-ia a-na ‘Hat®-ti lu 37. In my third campaign I went against 

al-lik the Hittite-land.”° 

™Lu-li-c sar ‘Si-du-un-ni pul-hi me- 38. Lulé, king of Sidon,—the terrifying 

lam-me splendor (lit. terrors of splendors) 

be-lu-ti-ta is-hu-pu-si’-ma a-na ru- 39. of my sovereignty overcame him and 

uk-kitt far off 

ka-bal!? tam-timin-na-bit®-ma sad-da“- 40. into the midst of the sea he fled. 

Su e-mid (There) he died. 

‘Si-du-un-nu rabi(u) ‘%Si-du-un-nu 41. Great Sidon, Little Sidon, 

sthru® 

¢Bit-2i-it-ti® *Za-ri-ib-tu" “Ma-hal-li-ba 42. Bit-Zitti, Zaribtu, Mahalliba, 

U-si-t *Ak-zi-bi ¢Ak-ku-t 43. Ushu, Akzib, Akko, 

aldni®'-Su  dan-nu-ti —_—bit-diirdniv''8 ~~ 44. _his strong, walled cities, where there 

a-sar ri-i-te were supplies (lit. fodder and drink- 
ing places), 

1H1 and El, nak. 8 H1 and El, add (ni). 1 1, si-th-ru. 

2 Vars. have different ideograms. 9 H1 and E1, Ha-at. 16 H1 and E1, te. 

3E1, matatirl. WEL, Su. WHA, ti. 

4H1 and E1, insert katd¢u after ina. u 1a, te. 18 H1, adds (nz). 


5 Hlc, inserts w. 
6 Hla, Mad-ai. 
7H1, tt; E1, inserts wu. 


12 H1 and El, kabal. 
18 Hla, kir(bis). 
14 H1 and EJ, om. 


19 Sennacherib-burg. 


20 Here, as frequently in the 
late Assyrian inscriptions, Syria 


30 


Col. 


45. 


46. 


47. 
48. 


49, 


50. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 
65. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


II 

au mas-ki-ti bit tuk-la-te!-Su ra-sub-bat 
~kakki 4A SSur 

béli-ia_  is-hu-pu-su?-nu-ti-ma 
Su? Se-pu-t-a 

™Tu-ba--lum® i-nat “kusst Sarru-w-tt 
eli-Su-un %-Se-sib-ma biltu man-da-tu® 
be-lu-ti-ca 

Sat-ti-Sam la ba-at-lu v-kin st-ru-us-su 


tk-nu- 


4 ™Mi-in-hi-im-mu_ *“Sam-si-mu-ru- 
na-ar 


. ™Tu-ba-?-lum’ *Si-du-un-na-at 

. ™Ab-di-li--tt *A-ru-da-at 

. ™U-ru-mil-ki ‘Gu-ub-la-ai 

. ™Mi-ti-in-tti *Az-du-da-at 

. ™Bu-du-ilu ®& Bit ™Am-ma-na-at 

. ™Kam-mu-su-na-ad-bi 'Ma-?-ba-at 

. ™4 VM alik-ram-mu 'U-du-wm-ma-ai 

. Sarrdni?" "A murri® ka-li-su-un igisi-e 


Sad-lu-tz 


. ta-mar-ta-su-nu ka-bit-tu a-di ribé-su 


a-na mah-ri-va 
18-St-nim-ma 18-Si-ku sépat-ia vw ™Si- 
id-ka-a 


Sar °Is-ka-al-lu-na sd la tk-nu-sul! 


a-na ni-ri-ia tldni?! bit-abi-su! sa-a- 
Su! asgat-su 
mar é?'-Su mdrdate?'-su- ahé?'-su zér 


bit-abi-Su 
as-su-ha-ma” a-na"A ssur'*%-ra-as-sus 
™Sarru-lu-da'-ri mar ™Ru-kib-ti Sarru- 
Su-nu mah-ru-a 
1H1 and E1, tv. 
21 and El, Su. 
31 and E1, lu. 
41, ina. 


®°H1, om. 


8H1, Bit. 


91, om. 


45, 


46. 


49. 
50. 
dol. 
52. 
53. 
54. 
55. 
56. 
57. 
58. 
59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 
65. 


6 E11, inserts at. 
7HI1 and El, lu. 


10 H1 and El, add (ni). 


for his garrisons,—the terrors of the 
weapon of Assur, 

my lord, overpowered them and they 
bowed in submission at my feet. 


. Tuba’lu I seated on the royal throne 
48. 


over them, and tribute, gift(s) for 
my majesty, 

I imposed upon him for all time, 
without ceasing. 

From Menachem, the Shamsimu- 
runite, 

Tuba’lu, the Sidonite, 

Abdi-liti, the Arvadite, 

Uru-milki, the Gublite, 

Mitinti, the Ashdodite, 

Budu-ilu, the Beth-Ammonite, 
Kammusu-nadbi, the Moabite, 
Malik-rammu, the Edomite, 

kings of Amurru, all of them, numer- 
ous presents, 

as their heavy tribute, 


they brought before me for the fourth 
time, and kissed my feet. But 
Sidka, 

king of Ashkelon, who had not sub- 
mitted 

to my yoke,—the gods of his father- 
house, himself, his wife, 

his sons, his daughters, his brothers, 
the seed of his father-house, 

I tore away and brought to Assyria. 
Sharru-lu-dari, son of Rukibti, their 
former king, 

UBL, Si. 

2 1, inserts, am. 

8 El, -ras-si. 

1441, inserts a. 

b HI, wu. 


Col. 
66. 
67. 
68. 
69. 
70. 
Mae 
12. 
ca 
74. 
ry 
76. 
rings 
78. 
79. 
80. 
81. 


82. 
83. 


Col. 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 


II 

eli nisé”! *Is-ka-al-lu-na as-kun-ma 
na-dan bilti kat-ri-e be-lu-ti-ia e-mid- 
su-ma 


i-Sa-a'-al?_ ap-sSa-a-ni_ i-na_ me-ti-ik 
gir-ri-1a 
°Bit-Da-gan-na ‘La-ap-pu-t 


¢Ba-na-ai-bar-ka °A-su-ru alani?'(ni)§ 
Sa ™Si-id-ka-a $4 a-na sépa*-ia dr-his 


la ik-nu-sut al-me aksud(ud) as-lu-la 
Sal-la-su-un® 

amSakkanaké?! rubite?! wu nigé?! “Am- 
kar-ru-na 

Sd ™Pa-di-i Sarra-su-nu bél a-di-e wv 
ma-met 


$a 'assSur™ bi-ri-tu® parzilla 1d-du-ma 
a-na ™Ha-za-kt-a’-% 'Ta-t-da-at 
id-di-nu-su nak-rig a-na an-z0l-lt 1-str- 
Su 

ip-lah lib-ba’-Su-un Ssarrdm?”® 'Mu- 
sul-r7 

amsabé?' “kaste “narkabdte?! sisé?! 


Sd Sar ‘Me-luh-hi" e-mu-ki® la ni-bi 


tk-te-ru-nim-ma_ il-li-ku ri-su-su-un 
a-na ta-mir-tt °Al-ta-ku-% 
el-la-mu-t'4-a_ si-id-ru Sit-ku-nu 

III 


. U-sa-a?-lu “kakké?'-Su-un i-na tukulti- 


(tz) “Assur 


. béli-ca 2t-ti-Su-un am-da-hi-is-ma as-ta- 


kan 

1 Hl, om. 6 E1, tu. 

2 El, da. 7 HI, ia, H1a, ta-a. 
31, om. 8 E1, libba. 

4E1, du. 9H1 and El, add (nz). 
* HI, sun. 10 Fl, ws. 


66. 


67 


68 


69 


(8 


72. 


73 


74. 


75. 


3l 


I set over the people of Ashkelon and 
I imposed upon him the payment of 
tribute (in the form of) presents to 
my majesty. 

He accepted (lit. bore) my yoke. 
the course of my campaign, 
Beth-Dagon, Joppa, 
Banaibarka, Asuru, cities 

of Sidka, who had not speedily bowed 
in 

submission at my feet, I besieged, I 
conquered, I carried off their spoil. 
The officials, nobles and people of 
Ekron, 

who had thrown Padi, their king, 
bound by (lit. lord of) oath and curse. 
of Assyria, 

into fetters of iron and 


In 


76-77. had given him over to Hezekiah, 


78 


80. 


81 
82 
83 


the Jew,—he kept him in confinement 
like an enemy,— 
they (lit. their heart) became afraid, 


. and called upon the Egyptian kings, 


the bowmen, chariots and horses 

of the king of Meluhha (Ethiopia), a 
countless host, and 

these came to their aid. 

In the neighborhood of Eltekeh, 
their ranks being drawn up before me, 


they offered battle. 
ald of Assur, 


(Trusting) in the 


. my lord, I fought with them and 


11 and Hila, ha. 

2 El, kt. 

18 H1, inserts ws, and E1, ri-su-us- 
su-un. 

4 Kl, wu. 


32 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. III 


3. 


10. 


iy 


13. 


14. 


10. 


Wie 


18. 
1g; 


20. 


21. 


tahtad-su-un °bél “narkabdte?! u mar é?! 
Sarre 


. ‘Mu-su-ra-at a-di *bél “narkabdati?! 


Sa Sar 'Me-luh-hi! 


. bal-tu-su-un i-na kabal tam-ha-ri tk- 


su-da 

kdtat"-ai °Al-ta-ku-@ °Ta-am-na-a 
al-me aksud(ud) as-lu-la_ Sal-la-sun’ 
a-na ‘Am-kar-ru-na 

ak-rib-ma *"sakkanaké?! *rubtite?! sd 
hi-it-tu 

u-sab-su-t a-duk-ma i-na di-ma-a-ti® 


si-hir-tt ali a-lul pag-ri-su-un mdr é?! 
ali 

e-pis an-nt UW kil-la-tt a-na Ssal-la-ti 
am-nu 


. s2-zt-tu-te-Su-nu la ba-bil hi-ti-te 


Ww kul-lul-ti $a a-ra-an-su-nu la ib-su-t 


ak-bt ™Pa-di-t Ssarra- 


US-SUT-SU-UN 
Su-nu 


. ul-tu ki-rib ¢Ur-sa-li-im-mu® t-Se-sa- 


am-ma 
i-na’ “kusst be-lu-ti eli-Su-un t-Se-sib- 
ma | 

man-da-at-tu be-lu-ti-ia u-kin si-ru- 
US-SU 

u "Ha-za-ki-a-t 'Ta-ti-da-ar 

Sa la tk-nu-su’ a-na ni-ri-ia 46 alani?'- 
Su dan-nu-te 
bit-dirdni?’® wu 


li-me-ti-su-nu 


alanw’ sthritr?’ sa 
$d ni-ba la i-su-t i-na Suk-bu-us a-ram- 
me 

11 and Hla, ha, 
2H1 and El, w. 
31, su-un. 

4H, w. 


Daa like 12. 


TEI, ina. 
8H, su. 


6 E1, and Hle, ma. 


10. 


Lie 


13. 


14. 


15. 


16. 


iW fe 


18. 
19: 


20. 


21. 


. brought about their 


defeat. The 
Egyptian charioteers and princes, 


. together with the charioteers of the 


Ethiopian king, 

my hands took alive in the midst of 
the battle. 

Eltekeh (and) Timnah 

I besieged, I captured and took away 
their spoil. 

I drew near to Ekron and slew the 
governors and nobles 

who had committed sin (that is, 
rebelled), and 

hung their bodies on stakes around 
the city. The citizens 

who sinned and treated (Assyria) 
lightly, I counted as spoil. 


. The rest of them, who were not 


guilty (carriers) of sin 

and contempt, for whom there was no 
punishment, !°— 

I spoke their pardon. 
king, 

I brought out of Jerusalem, 


Padi, their 


set him on the royal throne over 
them and 
imposed upon him my kingly tribute. 


As for Hezekiah, the Jew, 

who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of 
his strong, walled cities, as well as 
the small cities in their neighborhood, 


which were without number,—by 
levelling with battering-rams( ?) 

* E1, adds (ni) and has word before dannii. 
10 Or, against whom there was no charge. 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE 


Col. III 

22. uw kit-ru-ub su-pi-i! mit-hu-us? zu-uk 
Sépit 

23. pil-si nik-si wu kal-ban-na-te al-me 
aksud(ud) 

24. 200,150 nisé?! sihir rabit zikaru w' 
zinnistu 

25. sisé?! paré?! iméré?! gammalé?! 

26. alpé?!’ w si-e-ni® Sd la ni-bi ul-tu kir- 
bi-Su-un 

27. u-Se-sa-am-ma sal-la-tis am-nu Sa-a-Su 
kima issur ku-wp-pi 

28. ki-rib ¢Ur-sa-li-im-mué al Sarru-ti-su 

29. e-sir-Su? chal-su?! eli-Su v%-rak-kis-ma 

30. a-si-e abul ali-su %-tir-ra ik-ki-bu-us 
aldni?'-su 

31. sd as-lu-la ul-tu ki-rib mdati-su ab-tuk- 
ma 

32. a-na ™M?i-ti-in-ti Sar °Az-du-di 

33. ™Pa-di-i Sar *Am-kar-ru-na wu ™Silli- 
bél 

34. Sar °Ha-zi-ti ad-din-ma %-sa-ah-hir® 
mat-su 

35. e-le biltt mah-ri-ti na-dan® méti(tz)-su- 
un 

36. man-da-at-tu kat-ri-e be-lu-ti-ia %-rad- 
di-ma 

37. u-kin si-ru-us-Su si-t ™Ha-za-ki-a-% 

38. pul-hi me-lam-me be-lu-ti-ia is-hu-pu- 
SuU-ma 

39. “™ur-bi ue" sdbé?'-Su damkiti”! $d a-na 
dun-nun® 

40. °Ur-sa-li-im-mu al sarru-ti-su t-Se-ri- 


bu-ma 


171, e. 5H, sénicol, 
2H1, gu. 6 El, ma. 
?H1, u. TEI, 3d. 
‘Fl, u. 8E1, hi-ir. 


22. 


24. 


25. 
26. 


27. 
28. 
29. 
30. 


ol. 


32. 
33. 


34. 


OO. 


36. 


37. 


38. 


ae: 


40. 


PRISM INSCRIPTION 33 


and by bringing up siege-engines( ?), 
by attacking and storming on foot, 


. by mines, tunnels and breaches( ?), 


I besieged and took (those cities). 
200,150 people, great and small, male 
and female, 

horses, mules, asses, camels, 

cattle and sheep, without number, I 
brought away from them 

and counted as spoil. Himself, like 
a caged bird 

I shut up in Jerusalem his royal city. 
Earthworks I threw up against him,— 
the one coming out of the city-gate, 
I turned back to his misery. 

The cities of his, I had 
despoiled, I cut off from his land and 
to Mitinti, king of Ashdod, 

Padi, king of Ekron, and Silli-bél 


which 


king of Gaza, I gave. 
I diminished his land. 
I added to the former tribute, 


And (thus) 


and laid upon him the giving (up) of 
their land, (as well as) imposts— 
gifts for my majesty. 

As for Hezekiah, 

the terrifying splendor of my majesty 
overcame him, and 

the Urbi (Arabs) and his mercen- 
ary(?) troops which he had brought 
in to strengthen 

Jerusalem, his royal city, 


91, da-an. 

10 K1, adds un. 

11, Su. 

2 H1 and El, nu-un. 


34 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. III 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44, 


46. 


47. 


48. 


49. 


ol. 


52. 


53. 


54. 
55. 
56. 


57. 


ir-St'-% bat-la-a-tr? it-ti 30 bildt hurdsa 


800 bilat kaspa ni-sik-ti gu-uh-li 


dag-gas-si “"sandé rabite?’ ~“irsér! 
simnne 

“kussi?! ni-me-di sinnt masak pire sin 
pire , 


. usu “urkarinnu mimma sum-su ni- 


sir-tu® ka-bit-tu3 


u mardti?'-Ssu Sigréti?'(?)-Su  ™zam- 
mer éP! 

fzammerdte?’ a-na ki-rib Ninua* al 
be-lu-ti-ia 


arki-ia %-se-bi-lam-ma a-na na-dan 
man-da-at-te* 
wu e-pis ardu-ti-ti 18-pu-ra rak-bu-su 


. t-na ribé(e) gir-ri-ia 4A SSur be-li v-tak- 


kil-an-ni-ma 
um-ma-na-te-ia_ gab-sa’-te ad-ki-ma 
a-na 'bit-"La-kin 


a-la-ku ak-bi i-na me-ti-ik gir-ri-va 


sé ™St-zu-bt %”Kal-da’-ai a-sib ki-rib 
"a-gam-me 


i-na’ °Bi-it-tu-t-tu® as-ta-kan tahtd-su 
su-t har-ba-su? tahdzi-1a eli-su im- 
kut-ma 

at-ru-ku lib-bu'-su ki-ma az-za-ri e-dis 
tp-par-sid-ma 

ul in-na-'mir! a-Sar-Su? pa-an ni-ri-ia 
u-tir-ma 


41, 


42. 


43. 


44. 


45. 


46. 


47. 


48. 


49, 


50. 


51. 


53. 


54. 


55. 


56. 


57. 


deserted him (lit. took leave). 
In addition to the 30 talents of gold 
and 

800 talents of silver, (there were) 
gems, antimony, 

jewels(?), large sandu-stones, couches 
of ivory, 

house-chairs of ivory, elephant hide, 
ivory (lit. elephant’s “‘teeth’’) 
ebony(?), boxwood(?), all kinds of 
valuable (heavy) treasures, 

as well as his daughters, his harem, 
his male and female 

musicians, (which) he had (them) 
bring after me 

to Nineveh, my royal city. To pay 
tribute 

and to accept (lit. do) servitude, he 
dispatched his messengers. 

In my fourth campaign Assur, my 
lord, gave me courage, and 

I mustered my numerous armies and 
gave the 


. command to proceed against Bit- 


Yakin. 
paign 
I accomplished the overthrow of 
Shuzubi, the Chaldean,—who sat in 
the midst of the swamps,— 

at Bitdtu. 

That one,—the terror (lit. ague, 
chills) of my battle fell upon him, and 
broke his courage (lit. tore his heart) ; 
like a eriminal( ?) he fled alone, and 
his place was seen no more. The 
front of my yoke I turned and 


In the course of my cam- 


1El, Su. ’>H1 and E1, insert a. 9H, su. 
2H, te. 6 K1, da. 10 H1 and E1, ta-ha-zi. 
= 1) ti. 7 EI, ina. El and H1a, libbu. 


4H1 and E1, ti. ® Hia, i. 


Col. 


58. 
59. 


60. 


61. 
62. 


63. 


64. 


65. 


66. 


67. 


68. 


69. 


70. 


(ee 


72. 


73. 


74. 


75. 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 


Ill 
a-na 'Bit-"La-kin as-sa-bat har-ra-nu 
Mi-t =™*Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sa 


i-na' a-lak gir-ri?-ia 

mah-ri-e tahté-Su as-ku-nu-ma %-par- 
ri-ru 

el-lat-su. ri-gim “kakké?'-ia dan-nu-te 
u ti-ib tahdzi-va 12z-2t e-dur-ma 


ildni?’ ma-sal mati-su i-na Subti-su-nu 
id-ki-ma 

ki-rib “elippdte®’ u-sar-kib-ma_ a-na 
‘Na-gi-te-rak>-ki4 

Sa ka-bal tam-tim is-su-rig tp-pa-ris 
ahé?'-Su 

zér Obit-abi-Su Sd U-mas-si®-rua-hi 
tam-tim 

a-di si-it-ti nisé?' méati-su ul-tu ‘Bit- 
™Ia-kin( ?) 

ki-rib "a-gam-me u ap-pa-ra-a®-te ti-se- 
sa-am-ma 


Sal-la-tis am-nu %-tir-ma aldni?'-Su ab- 
bul ak-kur 

u-Se-me kar-mes eli bél sa-li-me-su sar 
'Klamti** 

na-mur-ra-tum’ at-bu-uk i-na ta-ia-ar- 
ti-7a 

md A §Sur-na-din-sum mdra 
tar-bit bir-ki-1a 

i-na “kusst be-lu-ti-su %-Se-sib-ma 


ris-tu-% 


rapastum(tum) '"Sumeri u& Akkadi* 
a-sad-gil pa-nu-us-su? 

i-na hansé gir-ri-ia ba-hu-la-te °Tu- 
mur-re 


1E1, ina. 2E1, girri. 


on 
CO 


On 
<2) 


61. 
62. 


63. 


64. 


65. 


66. 


67. 


68. 


69. 


70. 


(ale 


72, 


73. 


74, 


75. 


35 


. to Bit-Yakin I took the way. 
. That 


(same) Merodach-baladan, 
whose defeat I had brought about 


. in the course of my first campaign, 


and whose forces I had shattered, 
—the roar of my mighty arms 

and the onset of my terrible battle he 
feared and 

he gathered together the gods of his 
whole land in their shrines, 

and loaded them into ships and fled 


like a bird to Nagite-rakki, which is in 
the middle of the sea. His brothers, 
the seed of his father-house, whom he 
had left by the sea-shore, 

together with the rest of the people 
of his land, 

I brought out of Bit-Yakin, (from) 
the midst of the swamps and cane- 
brakes, 

and counted as spoil. I turned about 
and ruined and devastated his cities: 
I made them like ruin-heaps. Upon 
his ally, the king of Elam, 

I poured out terror. On my return, 


I placed on his (Merodach-Baladan’s) 
royal throne, 

Assur-nadin-shum, my oldest son, 
offspring of my loins (knees). 

I put him in charge of the wide land 
of Sumer and Akkad. 

In my fifth campaign, the warriors of 
Tumurru, 


3 H1, ra-ak. 


4 The text of this and preceding line was abbreviated in E1. 


5 H1, ma-Se. 6 H1, om. 


7K, tu. 


8H, %. 


® Hla, adds equivalent of ‘‘Rassam,’’ Il. 59, 60. See p. 60. 


80. 


81. 


Col. 


. ‘Ku-u'-a 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


ey 
. “Sa-ru-um! ¢H-za?-ma °Kib-su °*Hal- 


gid-da 


cKa-na sd kima_ kin-ni 
nasri’ a-sa-rid 
issuré! si-ir zuk-ti *¢*Ni-pur sadi(z) 


mMar-st 


. &u-bat-sun’ sit-ku-na-at-ma la kit-nu- 


Su’ a-na ni-rr® 


i-na sépt %4Ni-pur ka-ra-si u-sa-as- 
kin-ma 

at-ti °"mutir pu-ti Sépat"-ia na-as'-ku-te 
IV 


1 wu osabé?! tahdzi®-ia la ga-me-lu-ti 


9 


fee 


10. 


Ii: 


. hur-ri 


. a-Sar a-na 


- aA-nNa 


a-na-ku kima rimi tk-di pa-nu-us-su- 
un as-bat 
Sadi (2) 


na-hal-li na-ad-bak?® 


me-li-e 


. mar-su-tt i-na “kussi as-ta-am"-di-ch 


“kusst Sup-sti-ku  i-na 


Sépat"-va as-tah-id™ 


. kima' ar-me a-na zuk-ti sa-ku-ti® si- 


TU-US-SU-UN 


. e-li a-sar bir-ka-ai ma-na-ah-tu 1-sa-a 


Sadi(i) vu-sib-ma_ méP? 


ma Saky a-a-di ka-su-te™ 


si-ir aban 


su-um-me-ia lu as-ti i-na 
ubandat”! 
hur-Sa-a-ni 
kan 
tah-ta-su-un  aldni?'-Su-nu aksud-ma 


ar-di-Su-nu-ti-ma_  as-ta- 


as-lu-la §al-la-sun" 


1 He, Sa-ar-ma. 

2 E1, inserts a. 

3’ H1 and El, % 

471, su-un. 

5 El, Si. 

6 H1 and E1, insert 7. 


7E1, as 


9E1, ba-ki. 
SOOT ELON es 


76 


ti 


Sharum, Ezama, Kibshu, Halgidda, 


Kua (and) Kana, whose abodes 


78-79. were set on the peak of Mt. 


80. 


ails 


10: 


Li 


§ Hi and E1, ta-ha-zi. 


Nipur, a steep mountain, like the 
nests of the eagle, king of birds, 
(these people) were not submissive 
to my yoke. 

I had my camp pitched at the foot of 
Mt. Nipur and 

with my picked body-guard 


and my relentless warriors, 


. I, like a strong wild-ox, went before 


them (led the way). 


. Gullies, mountain torrents and water- 


falls, dangerous cliffs, 

I surmounted in my sedan-chair. 
Where it was too steep for my chair, 
I advanced on foot. 

Like a young gazelle I mounted the 
high(est) peaks in pursuit of them. 
Wherever my knees found a resting- 
place, 

I sat down on (some) mountain boul- 
der and drank the cold water from 
the water-skin 

(to quench) my thirst. 
mits 

of the mountains I pursued them and 
brought about 

their overthrow. Their cities I cap- 
tured and I carried off their spoil, 


To the sum- 


13 H1, te; El, inserts 2. 
1441 and El, tt. 

1 E1 and H1g, om. 

16 1, su-un 


1A, hi-id, E1, hi-dam. 
21, ki-[ma]. 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 


Col. IV 


12. 


13. 


14. 


16. 


Lis 


18. 


19. 


20. 
21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


ab-bul! ak-kur i-na? girrt ak-mu pa- 
an ni-ri-ia 
u-tir-ma si-ir ™Ma-ni-ia-e sar ‘Uk-ki 


'Da-ai-e la kan-se as-sa-bat har-ra-nu 


ur-hi la pi-tu-ti tu-di pa-as-ku-ti sd 
la-pa-an 
Sadé?' — mar-su-tt ul-la-nu-ti-a_ki-rib- 
Su-un 

ma-am-man la il-li-ku sarréni?” pa- 
ni mah-ru-ti 

i-na sép 4A-na-ra u& 
Sadi(di-1)* dan-nu-tr 


ka-ra-si. %-Sa-as-kin-ma a-na®-ku 7-na 


sad J y-a 


“kusst ni-me-dt 

it-ti *"sdbé”! ta-ha-zi-ia git-ma-lu-ti 
i-na ne-ri-bi-su-un pi-ku-ti Sti-nu-hi-1s 
e-ru-um-ma = mar-si-ig ___e-te-el-la-a 
ubdndt?! Sadi (2)4 

pa-as-ka-a-te® su-% ™Ma-ni-ia-e tur- 
bu-? 

sépa™ ummanate?-ia e-mur-ma Uk- 
ku al Sarru-ti-si 
e-zib-maa-naru-ki-e-ti in-na-bit °Uk-ku 
al-me aksud(ud)  as-lu-la 
mimma sum-su busi makkiru 


Sal-la-su 


ni-str-ti. ekalli-su ul-tu kir-bi-e§-si 
u-Se-sa-am-ma Sal-la-tis am-nu Ww 33 
aldni? (ni)! 

Sd pa-a-ti na-gi-Su¥ aksud®-ma nisé?! 
iméré?4 alpér! 
1E1, bu-ul. 

2 Kl, ina. 

3 H1, adds (ni). 

4 H1 and El, Sadér!. 


5 H1, ana. 


6 Hi and El, éi. 
7E1, A of HJ-A missing. 
8 H1 and E1, Su. 


Oo” 


12. I destroyed, I devastated, I burned 


with fire. The front of my yoke 
13. I turned. Against Maniae, king of 
Ukku, 


14. of the land of Daie, who was not sub- 
missive, I took the road. 

15-17. Before my day, none of the kings 
who lived before me, had traveled 
the unblazed trails and wearisome 
paths 
which (stretch) along these rugged 
mountains. 

18. At the foot of Mt. Anara and Mt. 
Uppa, mighty mountains, 

19. I had my camp pitched, and I, on a 
house-chair, 

20. together with my seasoned warriors, 

21. made my wearisome way through 
their narrow passes 

22. and with great difficulty climbed to 
the highest peak of the mountains. 

23. That Maniae saw the clouds of dust 
raised by the feet of my armies, 

24. abandoned Ukku, his royal city, 


25. and fled to distant parts. 

26. I besieged Ukku, I captured (it) and 
took away its spoil. All kinds of 
goods and merchandise, 

27. the treasure of his palace, 

28. I carried away from it, and counted 
as booty. Furthermore, 33 cities 

29. within the bounds of his province I 
captured. People, asses, cattle 

9 H1 and El, om. 

10H, Su. 

1 {1 and El, om. 

2 B11, li-me-ti-su for nagisu. 

18 1, adds (ud); E11, ak-Sud(ud). 


4 E1, has nisér! alpép! w& si-e-ni imérévl as-lu-la ab-bu-ul ak-kur ina girri ak-mu. 


38 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. IV 


30. 


3l. 


32. 


33. 


34, 


35. 


36. 


of. 


38. 


39. 


40. 


41. 
42. 


43. 


44, 


45. 


46. 


47. 


au si-e-nt ul-tu kir-bi-su-un as-lu-la 


ab-bu-ul ak-kur t-na girrt ak-mu 


V2? VYA 


a-na Sisst 
Lla-kin 


gir-ri-ia_si-it-ti nisé?’ 'Bit- 
Sé la-pa-an “kakké?'-ia dan-nu-te* 
kima pu-ri-me 

ig-ru-ru tldni?’ ma-sal mati-su-un i-na 
Subte’-su-nu id-ku-ma 


tam-tum rabitum(tum) sé si-it Sams 
e-bi-ru-ma 

i-na °Na-gi-tit sad 'Hlamti** id-du-t 
Su-bat-sun 

i-na “elippati”’ 'Hat-ti tam-tum lu e-bir 
‘Na-gi-tu® 
‘Na-gi-tw-di->-bi-na 
‘Bil-la-tu> 

u 'Hu-pa-pa-nu na-gi-e sé 'Elamti* 
aksud(ud) ; 

mise?’ 'Bit-la-kin -adi ildni?'-Su-nu uw 
niger! 


a-di 'Hi-il-mu 


Sd Sar 'Elamti™ as-lu-lam-ma la e-zi-ba 
mul-tah-tu ki-rib “elippati?! u-sar-kib- 
ma 

a-na a-ha-an-na-a t-se-bi-ra-ma %-Sa- 
as-bi-ta 

har-ra-an 'ASssur** alan?’ Sa ki-rib 
NA-Gi-e 

Sa-tu-nu ab-bul ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu 
a-na tilli u kar-me 

ti-tir i-na ta-ia-ar-ti-ia "Sti-zu-bu 


mar Babilt®* sad i-na e-si-tt ma-a-te® 
be-lu-tu’ 


30. 


dl. 


32. 


33. 


34. 


35. 


36. 


37. 


38. 


Be: 


40. 


41. 
42. 


43. 


44. 


45, 


46. 


47. 


1 Here follows account of Cilician campaign in E1. 


ei, 


8’ KI-KU. According to KB II, p. 101, variants of H1 have parakki. 


races 


and sheep, I carried away from them 
as spoil. 

I destroyed, I devastated and I burned 
(them) with fire. 

In my sixth campaign, the rest of the 
people of Bit-Yakin, 

who had run off before my powerful 
weapons like wild asses, 

who had gathered together the gods 
of their whole land in their shrines, 
had 

crossed the great sea of the rising 
sun and 

in Nagitu of Elam had established 
their abodes; 

in Hittite (Syrian) ships I crossed 
the sea. Nagitu 

Nagitu-di’bina, together with the 
(lands of) Hilmu, Billatu 

and Hupapanu, provinces of Elam, I 
conquered. 

The people of Bit-Yakin, together 
with their gods, and the people 

of the king of Elam, I carried off— 
not a rebel (lit. sinner) escaped. I 
had them embarked in vessels, 
brought over to this side, and started 
on the way 
to Assyria. 
those 
provinces I destroyed, I devastated, 
I burned with fire. To tells and ruins 
I turned (them). On my return, 
Shuzubu, 

the Babylonian, who during an up- 
rising in the land 
See pp. 61f. 


The cities which were in 


ASW Fai 
6 H1, matt. 
BL ii 


Col. 
48. 


49, 


50. 


51. 


52. 


53. 


54. 


55. 


56. 
57. 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 


65. 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 


IV 

‘Sumeri ut Akkadi*: ra-ma-nu-us ti-tir- 
ru 

i-na tahdz® séri tahtad-su as-kun bal-tu- 
su i-na katat™ 

as-bat-su  Sum-man-nu w_ bi-ri-tu 
parzille ad-di-si-ma 

a-na 'AsSsur** u-ra-as-Su Sar 
Sd idat-Su 

is-hu-ru-ma il-li-ku ri-su-su® tahtd-su 
as-kun 

elldte?'-Su t-sap-pi-ih-ma_ v-par-ri-ir 
pu-hur-su 

i-na sibé(e) gir-ri-ia 4A Sur be-lé t-tak- 
kil-an-ni-ma 

a-na 'E-lam-ti* lu-al-lik ‘Bit--Ha-?-7-ri 


'Hlamti** 


Ve. 


¢Ra-sa-a aldni?™ sé mi-sir "A Ssur* 
Sd i-na tar-st abi-ia e®-la-mu-t e-ki-mu 
da-na-nis 

i-na me-ti-ik gir-ri-ia aksud(ud)? 
as-lu-la Sal-la-sun 

saber! Si-lu-ti-ia u-se-rib ki-rib-su-un 
a-na mi-sir ; 

1A SSur™* v-tir-ra®-ma kata “rab ¢hal- 
su Déri* 

am-nu °Bu-bi-e (Dun-ni-4Samag “Bit- 
™Pi-si-1a 


¢Bit-ah-la-me-e ‘Du-ru °Kal-te-su-la-at 
°Si-li-ib-tu °Bit-A-su-si_ *Kar-"Zér°- 
ikisa(sa) 
¢Bit-"Gi-is-st_ *Bit-"Kdt-pa-la-ni ¢*Bit- 
™Im-bi-1a 


¢‘Ha-ma-a-nu °Bit-"Ar-ra-bi°Bu-ru-tu 65. 
SH), a. 5H1, adds (ni). 

2 H1, ta-ha-az. 6 H1, ome-, 

3 H1, inserts us. 7H1, akSud-ma. 
41, Elamti*i, 8 H1, ram. 


48 


49, 


51. 


52. 


53. 


54. 


50. 


56. 
57. 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 


39 


. had turned to himself the rule of 
Sumer and Akkad, 

I accomplished his defeat in a battle of 
the plain (open battle). 

. I seized him alive with my (own) 
hands, I threw him into bonds and 
fetters of iron and 
brought him to Assyria. 
of Elam, who 

had gone over to his side and had 
aided him, I defeated. 

His forces I scattered and I shattered 
his host. 

In my seventh campaign, Assur, my 
lord, supported me, 

and I advanced against Elam. 
cities of) Bit-Ha/’iri (and) 
Rasa, cities on the border of Assyria 
which the Elamite had seized by 
force during the time of my father,— 
in the course of my campaign I 
conquered and I despoiled them. 

I settled my garrisons therein, 


The king 


(The 


and restored them to the borders of 
Assyria, 

I placed them under (in hand of) the 
commandant of Dér. (The cities of) 
Bubé, Dunni-Shamash, Bit-Risia 
Bit-ahlamé, Duru, Kalte-sulai 
Shiibtu, Bit-Asusi, Kar-Zér-ikisha, 


Bit-Gissi, Bit-Katpalani, Bit-Imbia, 


Hamanu, Bit Arrabi, Burutu 


9H1, MU=sSum, 


10 H1, om. 


40 


Col. 


66. 


67. 
68. 


69. 


~] 
=) 


col a Fee FS I | 
> OO B® © DN He 


_~ 
— 
. 


~I 
a 


81. 


Col. 
. ™Kudur-Na-hu-un-du %”H-la-mu-t 
. im-kut-su hat"-tum st-at-tt aldni?'-su 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


IV 
eDim-ti'-sad-"Su-la-ai *Dim-ti'-sd- 
md M dr-biti-e tir (ar) 

¢Har-ri-as-la-ki-e ‘“Rab?-ba-ai 

cRa-a-su °‘Ak-ka-ba-ri-na °Til--U-hu- 
a 

‘Ha-am-ra-nu °Na-di-tu a-di aldni?'- 


(nz)8 


. §é ni-ri-bi Sd °Bit-"Bu-na-ki ¢Til-"Hu- 


um-bi 


. “Dim-ti'-sd-"Du-me-ilu “Bit-" U-bi-ia 
. ‘Ba-al-ti-li-sir °Ta-gab-li-sir 
. Sd-na-ki-da-te® “Ma-su-tt Sap-li-ti® 


“Sa-ar-hu-di'-ri °A -lum-sd-b élit-bite 
Bit-A hév'-cddina(na) °Il-te-vi-ba 
84 


sthrtte?' 


alan?! dan-nu-tt a-di aldni?® 


&d li-me-ti-Su-nu §d ni-ba la i-su-% 


al-me aksud(ud) as-lu-la_ sal-la-sun 
ab-bul ak-kur 

i-na girrt ak-mu ku-tur nak®-mu-ti- 
Su-nu 


. kima 2 kab-ti pa-an samé(e) rap-si-ti 


u-Sak-ti-im" 1§-me-ma ki-sit-tt aldni?'- 
Su 


V 


. a-na dan-na-a"?-te® %-s§e-rib su-t ‘“Ma- 


dak-tu' 


. al Sarru-ti-su e-zib-ma a-na °Ha-i-da-la 


1H, ¢«Di-in-tu. LP We Wg 37 


66. 


67. 
68. 


69. 
70. 
far 
72. 
73. 
74, 
75. 
76. 
Ces 
78. 
12 


80. 


rel 


aT ra. 7H1, inserts e. 
oi som: 8 H1, adds (ni). 
41, cDi-in-tu. 9 H1, na-ak. 

5 H1, a-tt. 10 1, tim. 


. he brought into the strongholds. 


Dimtu-sha-Sulai, Dimtu-sha-Mar- 
biti-etir 

Harri-ashlaki, Rabbai 

Rasu, Akkabarina Tel-Uhuri, 


Hamranu, Naditu, together with the 
cities 

of the passes of Bit-Bunaki, Tel- 
Humbi, 

Dimtu-sha-Dume-ilu, Bit-Ubia, 
Balti-lishir, Tagab-lishir, 
Shanakidate, the lower Masutu, 
Sar-hudiri, Alum-sha-bélit-biti, 
Bit-ahé-iddina, Ilte-uba, 

34 strong cities, together with the 
small cities 

of their environs, which were count- 
less, 

I besieged, I conquered, I despoiled, 
I destroyed, I devastated, 

I burned with fire, with the smoke of 
their conflagration 

I covered the wide heavens like a 
hurricane. 

The Elamite, Kudur-nahundu, 

heard of the overthrow of his cities, 


. terror overwhelmed him, the (people 


of) rest of his cities 
He 


himself 


. left Madaktu, his royal city, 


171, ha-at. 
BSH onts 
BHI, ti. 

14 Al, te. 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 4] 


Col. V 
5. Sa ki-rib Sadé?" rtikaiti?! is-sa-bat har- 
ra-nu 
6. a-na ‘Ma-dak-ti? al Sarru-ti-Su a-la-ku 
ak-bi 
7. arah tam-ti-ri kussu dan-nu e-ru-ba- 
am-ma 
8. Sa-mu-tum ma-at-tum %-Sa-az-ni-na 
zunneéP! sa 
9. zunné?! w sal-gi? na-ah-lut na-ad-bak 
Sadi(z)! a-du-ra 
10. pa-an ni-ri-ia %-tir-ma a-na Ninuak 
as-sa-bat 
11. har-ra-nu i-na t-me-sui-ma i-na ki-bit 
4A ssur béli-ia 
12. "Kudur-*Na-hu-un-du® sar 'Elamti* 
3 arhér! 
13. ul u-mal-li-ma i-na tme(me)® la si-7m- 
ti-Su 
14. ur-ru-hi-is* = im-tu-ut arki-su ™Um- 
man’-me-na-nu 
15. la ra-as té-e-me wu mal-ki 
16. ahu-su dup-pu-us-su-% i-na “kussi-su 
u-sib-ma 
17. i-na Samné(e) gir-ri-ia arki ™St-zu-bi 
as-si-hu-ma 
18. maré?’ Babile** gallé?’ lim-nu-ti 
abullani?! ale 
19. u-di-lu tk-pu-ut lib-ba-Su-nu —a-na 
e-pis tukmate 
20. ™Sti-zu-bu °™Kal-dd-ai id-lum dun- 
na-mu-U 
21. sé la 1-su-t bir-ki ““ardu da-gil pa-an 


ambél pihati 


1H1, Sad-di-t. 
21, te. 
3 HI, gu. 


4H, li. 
5H, di. 


6 H1, t-uwm. 


on 


10. 


LE; 


12. 


15. 


14. 


iF. 


16. 


We 


18. 


19: 


20. 


Al. 


and took his way to Haidala which is 
in the distant mountains. 
I gave the word to march against 
Madaktu, his royal city. 


. The month of rain, (with) extreme 


cold set in and the 

heavy storms sent down rain upon 
rain and 

snow. I was afraid of the swollen 
mountain streams; 

the front of my yoke I turned and 
took the road to 

Nineveh. At that time, at the com- 
mand of Assur, my lord, 
Kudur-Nahundu, the king of Elam, 
in less than three months (lit. did not 
fill three months) 

died suddenly before his appointed 
time (lit. on a day not of his fate). 
After Him, Umman-menanu, 

who possessed neither 
judgment, 

his younger(?) brother, sat on his 
throne. 

In my eighth campaign, after Shuzubu 
had revolted, 

and the Babylonians, wicked devils, 
had 

closed the city-gates,—their hearts 
planning resistance; 

Shuzubu, the Chaldean, a weakling 
hero, 

who had no knees, a slave, subject to 
the governor of 


sense nor 


7H, id. 


8 H1, ma-an. 


42 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. V 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 
27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


oz. 


30. 


34. 


35. 
36. 


37. 
38. 


39. 


eLa-hi-ri °"A-ra-me hal-ku mun-nab- 
ti: a-mir da-me 


hab-bi-lu. si-ru-us-Su tp-hu-ru-ma ki- 
rib "a-gam-me 

u-ri-du-ma %-sab-si-u si-hu a-na-ku 
ni-tum al-me-su?-ma 

nap-sa-tus t-si-ka la-pa-an hat-lti % ni- 
ib-ri-te8 

a-na 'Klamti** in-na-bit ki-t ri-kil-te 

wu kil-la-tt si-ru-us-Su— ba-si-1—-ul-tu 
‘Hlamti* 

i-hi-Sam-ma ki-rib Sti-an-na*i e-ru-ub 
bid wre hag At Phi 

a-na la si-ma-ti*-su i-na “kussi U-Sse- 
Si-bu-su 

be-lut® ‘Sumeri wv 'Akkadi*‘ 4-ad-gi-lu 
pa-ni-Su 

bit nisirti S4 E-sag-ila ip-tu-ma hurdsa 
kaspa 

$4 “Bél w 4Sar-pa-ni7-tum busd bit 
aldni”'-Su-nu U-Se-su-nt 


a-na ™Um-man-me-na-nu sar 'Hlamti* 
Sd la 1-8u-% 
té-e-mu u mail-ku8 u-se-bi-lu-us da-?-ti 


pu-uh-hir um-man-ka di-ka-a kards-ka 
a-na® Babili** hi-sam-ma 1-da-a-nt 1-zi- 
12-Ma 

tu-kul-ta-ni lu at-ta si- %EH-la-mu-t 
Sd i-na a-lak gir-ri-ia mah-ri-ti sd 
'Hlamte** 

alani?'-u ak-Su-du-ma t-tir-ru a-na 
kar-me 


1771, tu. 5 1, lu-ut. 
21, bi. CHT, Us 
Hi he 7 HI, bani. 
ds By ey 2 8 Hl, ki. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 
27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


33. 


34. 


37. 
38. 


39. 


the city of Lahiri,—about him there 
gathered the fugitive Arameans, the 
run-away, 

the murderer, the robber. 
marshes 

they descended and made rebellion. 
But I surrounded him completely. 

I pressed him to the life. Through 
fear and hunger 

he fled to Elam. When plotting 
and treachery were (hatched) against 
him (there), 

he hastened from Elam and entered 
Shuanna. The Babylonians 

placed him on the throne,—for which 
he was not fitted, 

and entrusted to him the government 
of Sumer and Akkad. 

The treasury of the temple Esagila 
they opened and the gold and silver 
belonging to Bél (Marduk) and Sar- 
panit, the property of the temples of 
their gods they brought forth 

and to Umman-menanu, king of 
Elam, who possessed 

neither sense nor judgment, they 
sent them as a bribe (saying): 


Into the 


. “Gather thy army, prepare thy camp, 
36. 


haste to Babylon, come to our aid 
(lit. stand at our side), for 

thou art our trust.”’ That Elamite, 
whose cities I had conquered and 
turned into ruins 

on my former campaign against Elam, 


°H1, om. 
10 A, Sud. 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 


Col. V 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44, 


45. 


46. 


47. 


48. 


49. 


50. 
51. 


52. 


53. 


54. 
55. 


56. 


57. 


lib-bu-us ul th-su-us da-?-ti 
am-hur-su-nu-ti-ma = ummédndte??-su 
kards-su t-pa-hir-ma 

»~narkabdati?! “su-wm-bi e-st-ra sisé?! 


paré?" is-ni-ka si-in-di-su 'Par-su-as 


‘An-za-an 'Pa-se’-ru ‘El-li-pi ¢La-az- 
an 

om Ta-kab-rat “"Ha-ar-zu-nu “™Du-um- 
mu-ku 

amSu-la-ai = ™Sa-am®-t-na —s mdr 
md VM arduk(SIT)-apal(A)-iddina(na)® 
'Bit-nA-di-ni 'Bit-"A-muk-ka-na 'Bit- 
mSil-la-na 
'Bit-"Sa-a-la-ti-ti-ak-ki 
om Bu-ku-du 
amCam-bu-lum 
t8-a 
anU-bu-lum *”Ma-la-hu “Ra-pi-ku 
om Hi-in-da-ru— *™ Da-mu-nu 
rabi(%) 

ik-te-ra it-ti-Su gi-vb-si-su-un t-ru-uh 


‘La-hi-ru 


om FH a-la-tum? am Ry->- 


kit-ru 


tAkkadi** is-ba-tu-nim-ma 
Babili®* te-bu-ni 

a-di ™St-zu-bi °"Kal-dd-ai Sar Babili* 
a-na a-ha-mes ik-ru-bu-ma_ pu-hur- 
Su-nu in-nin-du 

ki-ma ti-bu-ut a-ri-bi ma-?-dt Sd pa-an 
Sat-tt 

mit-ha-ris a-na e-prs tuk-ma-te? te-bu!- 
ni si-ru-w-a 


a-nNa 


43 


40. without thinking (lit. his heart did 
not consider) 

41. received the bribes from them, gath- 
ered his army and camp, 

42. collected (his) chariots and wagons, 
hitched (his) horses 

43. and mules to them. 
Parsuash 

44, Anzan, Pasheru, Ellipi, the men of 
Yazan, 

45. Lakabra, Harzunu, Dummuku, 


The lands of 


46. Sulai, Samuna, the son of Merodach- 
baladan, 

47. the lands of Bit-Adini, Bit-Amuk- 
kanu, Bit-Sillana, 

48. Bit-Salatutu-akki, the city of Lahiru, 
the men of Bukudu, 

49. Gambulum, Halatum Ru’ua, 


50. Ubulum, Malahu, Rapiku, 

51. Hindaru, 
vassal host 

52. he called to his side. 
them 

53-55. took the road to Akkad. Draw- 
ing nigh to Babylon, they exchanged 
courtesies with Shuzubu, the Chal- 
dean king of Babylon, and brought 
their host to a stand. 

56. Like the onset of locust swarms 
(many locusts) of the springtime, 

57. they kept steadily coming on against 
me to offer battle. 


Damunu,—an enormous 


The masses of 


THI tu. 5 H1, inserts >. SRT etze 

2H1, ummdndte*! rl, 6 H1, 4AMAR-UD-T UR-US-iddina(na). 10 H{1, inserts wv. 
HI, &. MS WSS Fe Iu. 

Aa an SIO, Gh 


44 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. V 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


63. 


64. 


65. 


67. 


68. 


69. 


epire?’ §épat-Su-nu ki-ma! zt kab-ti? 


Sé dun-ni e-ri-ia-ti® pa-an Samé(e) rap- 
Su-te* ka-tim® 

el-la-mu-ti-a ina °Ha-lu-li-e 8é ki-sad 
"I diglat 


Sit-ku-nu si-dir-ta pa-an mas-ki-ia 
sab-tu-ma 


. U-sa->-lu “kakké?'-Su-un a-na-ku a-na 


44 Sur 

4Sin 4Sama’ *Bél ¢Nabi 4Nergal 
aT Star $4 Ninua** 

47 Star §é4 “Arba-ilu wldni”! ti-ck-li-ia 


a-na ka-sa-di *nakri dan-nt am-hur- 
Su-nu-li-ma 


. su-pi-e-a ur-ru-hi-ts® is-mu-% il-li-ku 


ri-su-tt la-ab-bis an-na-dir-ma_ at-tal- 
bi-sa 
si-ri-ia-am hu-li-ia-am si-mat si-il-te? 


a-pi-ra ra-su-t-a i-na “narkabat 
tahdazi-va 


0. sir-ti sa-pi-na-at za-?-1-rt i-na ug-gat 
71. lib-bi-ia_ ar-ta-kab 


ha-an-tig “kastu 
dan-na-ti? 


. 8d *Assur U-sat-li-ma i-na kdata*-ia 


as-bat 


. “tar-ta-hu pa-ri-- nap-sa-ti® at-muh 


rit-tu-u-a 


. st-ir gi-mir um-ma-na-te® na-ki-ri lim- 


nu-te 


. a-me-is zar-bis” al-sa-a kima ¢Adad 


as-gu-um 


1H1, kima. 
2 H1, te. 


3 H1, inserts a. 
Hil, t. 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 


66. 


67. 


68. 


69. 


70. 
(fs 


72. 


73. 


74, 


75. 


5 HI, ti-im. 
STM (aks 


With the dust of their feet covering 
the wide heavens 

like a mighty storm with (its) masses 
of dense (lit. pregnant) clouds, 
they drew up in battle array before 
me in the city of Halulé, on the bank 
of the Tigris. 

They blocked my passage and offered 
battle. 

As for me, to Assur, 


Sin, Shamash, Bél, Nabt, Nergal, 
Ishtar of Nineveh, 

Ishtar of Arbela, the gods in whom I 
trust, 


. I prayed for victory over the mighty 


foe. 

They speedily gave ear to my prayers 
and came 
to my aid. 
put on 
(my) coat of mail. (My) helmet, 
emblem of victory (battle), 

I placed upon my head. My great 
battle chariot, 

which brings low the foe, 

I hurriedly mounted in the anger of 
my heart. The mighty bow 

which Assur had given me, I seized 
in my hands; 

the javelin, piercing to the life, I 
grasped. 

Against all of the hosts of wicked 
enemies, 

I raised my voice (lit. cried out), 
rumbling like a storm. Like Adad 
I roared. 


Like a lion I raged I 


7 HI, tum. 
8 H1, te. 


9 H1, a-tt. 


0 H1, zar-bis t-me-i8. 


Col. 


76. 


(re 


78. 


#9. 


80. 


81. 


82. 


83. 


84. 


85. 


86. 


87. 


88. 


Col. 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 


V 

i-na ki-bit *Assur béli rabi béli-ca a-na 
Sid-di ut pu-tr? 

kima ti-ib me-hi-e Sam-ri a-na ?nakri 
a-zi-ik 

i-na “kakke?’ ¢Assur béli-ia uw ti-ab 
tahdzi-ia vz-20 

7-rat-su-un a-ni--ma suh-hur-ta-su-nu 
as-kun 

ummanate??? na-ki-ri i-na us-st mul- 
mul-li 

u-sa-kir-ma gim-ri *™pagré?'-su-nu %- 
pal-li-sa : 

tam( ?)-2t-2i-18 ™ 4Hu-um-ban3-un-da- 
sa ?"nagirut 

Sd Sar 'Elamti** id-lum pit-ku-du mu- 
ma->-ir 

ummandte?'-su tu-kul-ta-Su— rabii(v) 
a-di “rabite? '-su 

$a patar sib-bi hurdsi sit-ku-nu 

wu i-na Seméré?! as-pt hurdst ru-us-si-t 
ruk-ku-sa rit-ti-Su-un ki-ma sv-a-ri 


ma-ru-ti §é na-du-t% Sum-man-nu 


VI 

ur-ru-hi-is® G-pal-lik®-su-nu-ti-ma_ as- 
ku-na tah-ta-su-un ; 
ki-Sa-da-te-Su-nu u-na'-kis az-lis® ak- 
ra-a-t? 

nap-sa-te-Su-nu t-par-ri-? gu-u-1s ki- 
ma” mili 

gab-si Sé Sa-mu-tum si-ma-ni uw mun- 
ni-Su-nu u-sar-da-a 

si-ir wr-si-tt Sa-di-il-ti4 la-az-mu-te 


1H, w. 5 HI, fis. 
2H1, te. 6 H1, om. 
3 H1, ba-an. THI, nak. 
41, °"na-gi-ru. 8 H1, li-cs. 


76. 


fee 


79. 


80. 


81. 


82. 


83. 


84. 


85. 


86-87. and 


88. 


45 


At the word of Assur, the great lord, 
my lord, on flank and front 

I pressed upon the enemy like the 
onset of a raging storm. 


. With the weapons of Assur, my lord, 


and the terrible onset of my attack, 
I stopped their advance, I succeeded 
in surrounding them, 

I decimated the enemy host with 
arrow and spear. 

All of their bodies I bored through 
like—. 

Humban-undasha, the field-marshal 


of the king of Elam, a trustworthy 
man, commander 
of his armies, his chief support, 
together with his nobles 

who wear the golden girdle-dagger 
(wrists) 
encircled with heavy (thick?) rings 
of shining gold,— 

like fat steers who have hobbles put 
on them,— 


whose hands are 


. speedily I cut them down and estab- 


lished their defeat. 


. I cut their throats like—, 


I cut off their precious lives (as one 


cuts) astring. Like the many waters 


. of a storm, I made (the contents of) 


their gullets and entrails 
run down upon the wide earth. 
prancing 


My 


DSW Ve Kohany (oe 
101, kima. 
11 1, te. 


46 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. VI 


6. 


G 


10. 


11. 


12. 


13. 


14. 


16. 


Lis 


18. 


19. 


20. 


21. 


mur-ni-is-ki si-mit-tt ru-ku-bi'!-ia i-na 
da-me-su-nu 
gab-su-tr 


t-Sal-lu-% = ‘%ndri-1§ = $4 


vnarkabat tahdzi-1a 


. sa-pi-na-at rag-gi wu si-nt da-mu w 


pir-su 


. ri-it-mu-ku ma-gar-ru-us pag-rt_ ku-ra- 


di-Su-nu 


ki-ma ur-ki-tt t-mal-la-a séri sa-ap- 
sa-pa-te 

a-na-kis-ma_ bal-ta-su-un a-bu-ut ki- 
ma bi-ne 

kig-Se-e si-ma-ni t-na-kis® ka-ti-Su-un 
Seméré?! as-pt hurdst kaspi (KI- 
SAG)4 ib-bi Sa rit-ti-Su-nu 

am-hur i-na nam-sa-ri zak-tu-ti: hu-za- 
AaN-N1-SU-NU 


. u-par-ri-? patré?’ sib-bi hurdsi kaspi 


Sa®° kablé?'-Su-nu 
e-kim 
m dNabi-sum-iskun(un)? 


si-tt-ti =—§ *"rabiaite?"-Su® = a-di 


mar ™ ¢Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sda 
la-pa-an tahdzi8-ia vp-la-hu 

vd-ku-t 1da*"-*Su-un bal-tu-su-un ina 
kabal tam-ha-rz 

it-mu-ha kdtat’-ar “narkabdate?’ a-di 
sisé?'-si-na 

$d t-na kit-ru-ub tahdzi® dan-ni ra-ki- 
bu-sin" di-ku-ma 

U S-NAa MUS-SU-TA-MA TA-MA-NU-US-SiN 
1H1, pt. 
21, wv. 
3H1, ak-kis. 


5 HI, sd. 
6 Text of H1, Su-nu. 


7 HAI, 28-kun. 


6. 


Un 


10. 


Li 


ips 


13. 


14. 


16. 


17. 


18. 


a! 


20. 


21. 


8 H1, ta-ha-zi. 
9 HI, t-da. 
10 H1, ta-ha-zi. 


steeds, harnessed for my riding, 
plunged 

into the streams of their blood as 
(into) a river. The wheels of my 
war chariot, 


. which brings low the wicked and the 


evil, 


. were bespattered with blood and 


filth. With the bodies of their 
warriors 
I filled the plain, like grass. (Their) 


testicles 

I cut off, and tore out their privates 
like the seeds 

of cucumbers of Siwan (June). 
hands I cut off. 

The heavy(?) rings of brightest gold 
which (they had) on their wrists 

I took away. With sharp swords 


Their 


. I pierced their belts and took away 


the girdle-daggers of gold and silver 
which (they carried) on their persons. 
The rest of his nobles, together with 
Nabt-shum-ishkun, 

son of Merodach-baladan, who had 
taken fright at (before) my onslaught 
and had gone over to their side, 
(these) my hands 

seized in the midst of the battle. 
The chariots and their horses, 

whose riders had been slain at the 
beginning of the terrible onslaught, 
and who had been left to themselves, 


1H, Sin. 


4 Probably wrong use of a variant of the ideogram KI-SI-GA, kasdpu. 


Col. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


33. 


34. 


30. 


THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 


VI 
it-ta-na-al-la-ka mit-ha-ri St-tir-ra 
a-di 2 biri mi-il-li-ku da-ak-sul-nu 
ap-ru-us 
SU-% ™Um-ma-an-me-na-nu sar 
‘Hlamts** 
. a-di sar Babilt®* ¢na-sik-ka-ni Sa 
'Kal-di 
a-li-kut ida*-su har-ba-su tahdzi-ia 
ki-ma? li-e 
zu-mur-sul-un ts-hu-up “za-ra-te-su-un 


U-mas-Se-Tru-Ma 


a-na st-zu-ub napsdate?'-Su-nu pag-rt 
ummdandte’?3-su-un 
u-da-4-i-Sue®-ti-ku— ki-2 
summatu 

kus-su-di i-tar-ra-ku lwb-bu-su-un  s1- 
na-te-Su-un 

u-zar®-ra-bu ki-rib “narkabdaté?'-su-nu 
U-Mas-Se-TU-N1 

zu-ut-Su-un a-na ra-da-di-su-nu 
~narkabdti?' 

sisé?'-1a v-ma--ir arki™-su-un 


Sd ad-mi 


mun-na-rib-su-nu sd& a-na nap-sa-a- 
te® U-su-u 


22 


23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 


Le 


28. 
29. 
30. 
ol. 
32. 
3d. 
34, 


30. 


47 


. kept running back and forth (lit. 
going and returning) 

for a distance of two-double-hours,— 
I put an end to their headlong flight. 
That Umman-menanu, king of Elam, 


together with the king of Babylon 
(and) the princes of Chaldea, 

who had gone over to their side, the 
terror of my battle 

overturned them (lit. their bodies) 
like a bull. They abandoned their 
tents 

and to save their lives they trampled 


the bodies of their (fallen) soldiers, 
they fled like young pigeons 

that are pursued. They were beside 
themselves (lit. their hearts were torn) 
they held back(?) their urine, but let 
their dung go into their chariots. 

In pursuit of them 


I despatched my chariots and horses 
after them. 

Those among them who had escaped, 
who had fled for their lives, 
wherever they (my charioteers) met 
them, they cut them down with the 
sword. 


(See pp. 128 f. for the remainder of this document.) 


a-Sar 1-kas-sa-du w-ra-sa-pu_1-na 
vkakkt. 

1H1, Si. 2 HT om, 

2 Al, kima. vals ed 


3H1, wm-ma-na-te. 6 H1, za. 


7H, ar-ki. 
8H1, Sa. 
THI ot, 


CHAPTER V 


THE HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED 
CHRONOLOGICALLY 


I. THE FIRST CAMPAIGN (A1) 


. 4 Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba sarru rabi sarru]! 


dan-nu Sar 'Assur** sarru la Sa-na-an 
ri-€-um mut-nin-nu-&@ pa-lih claniv! 
rabite”! 


. na-|sir kit-tt ra--im mi-sa-ri_ el-pis 


u-sa-a-ti a-lik tap-pu-ut a-ki-t sa-hi-ru 
dam-ka-a-ti 


id-[lum git-ma-lum zi(text rz)-ka-ru 
kar-du a-sa-rid| kal ma-al-ki_ rab-bu 
la--it la ma-gi-rt mu-sab-ri-ku  za- 
ma-a-nr 

Assur Sadi(u) rabi(%) sarru-ut la 
Sa-na-an %-Sat]-li-ma-an-ni-ma eli gi- 
a-sar-ba-a 


mir a-sib-— pa-rak-ki 


kakké?'-ta 


1. Sennacherib, 


the great king, the 
mighty king, king of Assyria, king 
prayerful shepherd 
of the great 


without a rival; 
(ruler), worshipper 
gods; 


2. guardian of the right, lover of justice, 


who lends support, who comes to the 
‘aid of the needy, who turns (his 
thoughts) to pious deeds; 


3. perfect hero, mighty man, first among 


all princes, the powerful one who con- 
sumes the insubmissive, who strikes 
the wicked with the thunderbolt ;— 


4. the god Assur, the great mountain, has 


entrusted to me an unrivalled kingship 
and above all those who dwell in pal- 
aces, has made powerful my weapons. 


5. [¢-na rés Sarru-li-ia Sd i-na “'kussi! 5. At the beginning of my reign, when 
(rabis %)-'St'!-bu-ma_ ba-hu-la-a-te I solemnly took my seat on the 
‘Assur’? v-ma-i-ru i-na_ tas-me-e wu throne, and ruled the inhabitants of 
sa-li-me Assyria with mercy and grace, 

6. ”(*?Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sar ‘Kar- 6. Merodach-baladan, king of Babylonia, 


'dun-ta-as sé libbi-su ig-su' ba-ra-nu-t 
ka-ras sur-ra-a-ti e-pis li-mul-ti sa 
an-zil-la-sii kab(?)-tu 


(whose heart is wicked), an instigator 
of revolt, plotter of rebellion (lit. 
belly, mind, of rebellion), doer of 
evil, whose guilt is heavy, 


‘Contrary to the usual procedure (see p. 22), the bracketed portions of the transliteration of 
ll. 1-9 of this text are not conjectural readings but restorations from a duplicate text, Ki, 1902—5-10, 
1 (following Smith’s edition). In these lines I have therefore inclosed the conjectural readings in 
parentheses. 


48 


10. 


Ti; 


12. 


13. 


14. 


15. 


well known. 


1Smith reads Sant rakbu. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


m Su-tur-*Na-hu-du %'E-(la-mu-% 
idd-s%) is-hur-ma hurdsa kaspa ni-sik- 


ti abnér! %-sat-lim-si-ma_ e-tir-ri-su 


Ikit!-ru 
™|Im-ba-ap-pa °"tur-ta(-nu Sa sar 
‘Hlamti**) ImT'a'-an-na-a-nu 


omITT Sumélu(?)! 10 rab ki-sir?? a-di 
mdNergal-na-sir @Su-tu-t la a-di-ru 
ta-ha-zu 

80,000 *™|sdbé “kasi? . . . 
Sumeri wv 


a[eeises 
at-ti-Su-nu-ti-ma —a-na 
Akkadi" ig-pu-ra ri-su-(us-su! 

u Ssu-u |” 4Marduk-apla-iddina(na) 
wee Uruk’ hrduk® Kaullabu* Ke- 
is-sikk* “Ni-mid-4|La-gu]-da 
‘Bit-"([a-kin '"Bit-"A-muk-ka-a-ni 
‘Bit-"Sa-al-|li 'Bit-"Dak-ku-ri si-hir-te 
am Kal-di ma-la ba-si-"t' 

Sad kisdd "|Mar-ra-ti °Tu--mu-na 
amRi-hi-hu “U-bu-du °\La-dak-ku 
am Kib-ri-e °°" Ma-'li'-hu 


Sa kisdd “Idiglat ‘"Gu-ru-mu “U-bu- 
lu *"Da-mul-nu *Gam-bu-lu °Hi-in- 
da-ru *Ru--u-a °Bu-ku-du 


$4 kisdd" Ukni “Ha-am-ra-nu %Ha- 
ga-ra-nu| @Na-ba-ti %Li--ta-a-% 
amA-ra-mu la kan-si sa la i-'du'-t 
mi-[tu( ?)|-tum 


Wap see aar-sip >. Kutuk 
gi-mir 'Kar-dun-ia-as is-te-nis u-pa- 
hir|-ma %-|Sak-sir 'ta'-ha-zu. .... 


v% 


10. 


1 ie 


12. 


13. 


14. 


15. 


But the existence of such an officer is doubtful. 
The ‘‘second” (Sanz) or “left”? (Swmélu) tartan, as over against the 


49 


brought over to his side Shutur- 
Nahundu,? the Elamite, and gave 
him gold, silver and precious stones, 
and (so) secured him as an ally. 
Imbappa, tartan of the king of 
Elam, Tannanu, the left tartan, 
10 commanders, together with Nergal- 
nasir, the Sutaean, who was fearless 
in battle, 

80,000 bowmen, . . 
were with them, he sent to Sumer and 
Akkad (Babylonia) to his aid. 

And that (Merodach-baladan) ... . 
Ur, Eridu, Kullab, Kissik, Nimid- 
Laguda, 

Bit-Yakin, Bit-Amukkaéni, Bit-Salli, 
Bit-Dakkuri, all the Chaldeans, as 
many as there were, 

who (dwell) on the shore of (the 
Salt-sea), the Tu’muna, the Rihihu, 
the Ubudu, the Yadakku, the Kipré, 
the Malihu, 

who (dwell) on the bank of (the 
Tigris), the Gurumu, the Ubulu, the 
Damunu, the Gambulu, the Hindaru, 
the Ru’ua, the Bukudu, 

who (dwell) on the bank of (the 
Karha); the Hamranu, the Hagaranu, 
the Nabatu, the Li’tau, Aramaeans 
who are not submissive, who do not 
heed death(?), 

Nippur, . . . . Borsippa, Kutha, all 
of Babylonia, he gathered together 
and marshalled for the fight. 


. . horses which 


The SalSu rakbu is 
“right” (imnu) 


tartan, is a regular staff-officer of the Assryian military organization (Harper, Letters, 144, 13, II R, 31, 
26-7a). 


2 This should be the Ishtar-hundu of the Babylonian Chronicle, ef. p. 159, 1. 33. 


16. 


ue 


18. 


Lys 


20. 


21. 


22. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


ta-a-ti '4Sin-ahé?'-ert-ba' [sd lib]-br- 
[Su] 'na---du' tp-se-ti-Su lim-ni-e-ti 
u-Sa-an-nu-nim-ma_ la-ab-bis an-na- 
dir-ma ki-rib Babilc®* a-[na mah-|ri-st 
ak-ti-'bi! a-la-ku 

§u-t im-di gal-li-e lim-ni a-lak gir-ri-ia 
1s-me-ma sisér! sbér! ~kastt 
am A[E(?)|-la-mu-% “A-ra-mu %Kal- 
du it-ti”"*N ergal-na-sir u 10 rab ki-sir[?! 
Sar(?)| "Elamtc** 
[tw( ?)]-tu 


Iga la!’ i-du mi- 


e-mu-ki la ni-bi it-ti-Su-nu-ti-ma %- 
dan-ni-in ki-is-ri-su-un ki-rib Kutak 
18-te-mis t-Se-rib-ma a-na me-te-ck gir- 
ri-ia t-sa-an-'sir! ka-[a]-a-"nam! 


si-in-di-ia_ us-te-se-ra tému 20K" Sq 
aratSabdtu ul-tu Assur(BAL-TIL)* 
kima rimz gab-si mah-rit ummdanatr?'- 
va as-bat-ma pa-an gi-ib-si-ia ul %-sad- 
gil ar-'kal-a ul “i'-ki 

amrab-sak “"bélé-pihatr?'-ia a-na Kis* 
u-ru-uh 
sab-ta-a- 


u-ma->-ir mah-ru-u-a 
m4 M arduk-apla-iddina(na) 
ma e-te-ga-a dun-ni-na ma-sar( ?)-tus 


Su-t MbElE prihatr?'-ia e-mur-ma a-di 
gi-mir el-la-ti-Su Abéal *Za-md-ma us- 
sa-am-ma i-na ta-mir-ti Kis** t-te 
amrabtite?'-ia e-pu-us ta-ha-zu 


omrabite?'-va kit-ru-ub ta-ha-zr “™nakri 
eli-Su-un id-nin-ma ul 7-li-?-% ma-ha- 
ar-S& °™mar-sip-ri-Su-un_ Sd a-mat 
i-na ki-rib ta-mir-ti Kutt si-ru-u-a 
1S-PU-TU-U-NL 


16. 


Les 


18. 


12; 


20. 


21. 


22. 


To me, Sennacherib, whose heart is 
exalted, they reported these evil 
deeds; I raged like a lion, and gave 
the command to march into Baby- 
lonia against him. 

That evil prop of the devil heard of 
my march to battle, and the horse 
and bowmen of the Elamites, the 
Aramaeans, and Chaldeans, together 
with Nergal-nasir and the ten com- 
manders of Elam, who take no heed of 
death( ?), 

who had with them a countless host,— 
the organization of these he perfected 
(strengthened), brought them all into 
Kutha, and (there) had a steady 
watch kept on the progress of my 
campaign. 

I had my teams (yokes) prepared, 
on the 20th day of Shabatu I set 
out from Assur ahead of my army, 
like a mighty bull; I did not wait for 
my host, I did not hold back. 

My general (and) governors I sent 
on to Kish, ahead of me, (with the 
order): ‘‘Take the road against 
Merodach-baladan; advance, keep a 
close watch over him (lit. strengthen 
his guard).”’ 

That one saw my governors, and 
with all of his troops sallied out 
of the gate of Zamama and did 
battle with my captains in the plain 
of Kish. 

As for my captains, the enemy’s 
onset of battle against them was 
mighty and they could not stand 
before him. They sent their mes- 
sengers for help to me (while I 
was) in the neighborhood of Kutha 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


i-na ug-gat lib-bi-ca eli Kuti** ti-bu-a- 
ta(text ru) as-kun-ma “™mun-dah-si 
sa-hi-ir déri-Su 'az'-li-cs %-tib-bi-ih- 
ma as-sa-bat ala 

sisé?! sabé?! “kasti °™E-la-me-e “A -ra- 
mu *™Kal-du *rab ki-sir?* (Sar ?) 
‘Hlamtt®® wu ™4Nergal-na-sir a-di 
méaré?! alt bél hi-it-ti u-se-sa-am-ma 
Sal-la-ti-1s am-nu 


la-ab-bis an-na-dir-ma al-la-bi-1b a-bu- 
bi-1s it-te *"ku-ra-di-ia la ga-me-lu-te 
si-ris ™¢Marduk-apla-iddin(na) a-na 
Kis** as-ta-kan pa-ni-ia 

WU Su-t% e-pis lim-ni-e-tt a-ka-mu gir- 
ri-ia a-na ru-ki-e-ti e-mur-ma im-ku-su 
hat-tu gi-mir el-la-ti-Su e-zib-ma a-na 
'Gu-zu-um-ma-ni in-na-bit 
™Ta-an-na-a-nu  a-di  wm-ma-na-at 
am Hlamé** omKal-du wu A-ra-mu sé 
1-da-a-sv 12-21-zu-ma wl-li-ku ri-su-us- 
su tahtaé-su-un as-kun-ma v-par-ri-ir 


el-Clat>-su 


™A-di-nu mdr assat ™?Marduk-apla- 
iddin(na) a-di ™Ba-as-ka-a-nu ah 
fTa-ti---e Sar-rat “A-ri-bi it-ti wm-ma- 
na-te-Su-nu  bal-tu-su-un 
as-bat 

vnarkabati?’ “su-um-bi sisé?’ paré?! 
imére?’ gammalé?! ”erud-ri sd ki-rib 
tam-ha-ri mus-si-ru tk-si-da katat-ar 


ina ka-te 


i-na hu-ud lib-bt wu nu-uwm-mur pa-ni 
a-na_ Bédbili** a-hi-is-ma a-na_ ekal 
™’Varduk-apla-iddin(na) as-s% pa- 


4, 


kad busi & makkirt ki-rib-Sa e-ru-ub 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29; 


30. 


51 


In the anger of.my heart I made an 
assault upon Kutha; the troops 
about its walls I slaughtered like 
wild animals and took the city. 
The horse and bowmen of the 
Elamite, the Aramaeans (and) the 
Chaldeans, the commanders of the 
king(?) of Elam, as well as Nergal- 
nasir, together with the citizens, the 
rebels (lit. sinners), I brought forth 
and counted as spoil. 

I raged like a lion, I stormed like a 
tempest, with my merciless warriors 
I set my face against Merodach- 
baladan, (who was) in Kish. 

And that worker of iniquity saw 
terror fell 
upon him, he forsook all of his 
troops, and fled to the land of 
Guzummanu. 

Tannanu, together with the armies of 
Elamites, Chaldeans and Aramaeans, 
who had stood at his side (espoused 
his cause) and had come to his aid,— 
their defeat I accomplished and I 
shattered his forces. 

Adinu, son of the wife of Merodach- 
baladan, together with Baskaénu, 
brother of Yati’e, queen of the Arabs, 
along with their armies I seized as 
living captives. 


my advance from afar; 


The chariots, wagons, horses, mules, 
asses, camels, and dromedaries, which 
had been abandoned during the 
battle, my hands captured. 

In joy of heart and with a radiant 
face, I hastened to Babylon and 
entered the palace of Merodach- 
baladan, to take charge of the prop- 
erty and goods (laid up) therein. 


52 


33. 


34. 


37. 


38. 


39. 


. ap-te-e-ma 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


bit 
kaspa v-nu-ut hurdsi kaspi abné?! a- 


ni-sir-te-Su— hhurdsa 
kar-ti “irsé?! kussé?! ni-me-di ’Sa-Sa- 
da-di “ga-si-ru-ut Sarru-ti-su Sa th-zu- 
Su-nu hurdsu kaspu 


. mimma sum-st busi makktiiru la ni-bi 


ni-sir-tum ka-bit-tum assat-su sinni- 
Sati?’ ekalli-Su Snaplasdte?’ (2SAL- 
IGI-DUB-MES) ™xii-ut-r exe?! tire! 
amman-za-az pa-ni *zammeré?! Szam- 
mer étr?! 

anarddn®”! ekallt mu-nam-mi-ru_te-mu 
ru-bu-ti-su_si-hi-ir-ti wn-ma-a-ni_ ma- 
la ba-su-% mut-tab-bi-lu-ut ekalli-su 
u-Se-sa-am-ma sal-la-ti-i§ am-nu 


ur-ri-th-ma arki-su a-na 'Gu-zu-um- 


ma-ni @mun-dah-si-ia a-na_ ki-rib 
"a-gam-me WU ap-pa-ra-a-ti %-ma-?-1r- 
ma 6 t-me vt-ba-u-si-ma ul in-na- 


mir a-sar-st 


. si-te-it sisé?’ ummandte’?'-Su $d ta->-S% 


ma-na-ah-tum na-a-lis ip-par-si-du- 
su-ma la i-li-ku 1-da-a-si 18-tu ki-rib 
séri u ba-ma-a-ti 7s-te-nis ti-pa-hir 


. -na me-ti-tk gir-ri-ia °A-ma-tu °*Ha- 


u-a-e °“Su-pa-bu °‘Nu-ka-bu ¢Bit-"Sa- 
an-na-bi “Ku-ta-ai-in 

‘Dir-"La-di-ni °Bi-ta-a-ti 
°Ba-ni-tu 'Gu-zu-um-ma-nu °‘Dtr-"La- 
-an-su-1t “Diir-"A-bi-ia-ta-? “Diir-"Ru- 
du-wm-me 

‘bit-"Ra-hi-e ‘°Ha-pi-sa  ‘Sa-di-clu 
‘Hu-ru-du ‘Sa-ah-ri-na °Il-tu-uk °Al- 
la-al-lu Marad** ¢Ta-ki-mu-na 
¢Ku-ub-ru-na °Bit-"Ku-dur-ri_ “Stika- 
83 alan! 
‘Bit- 


¢Kid-ri-na 


(ka)-"Ma-ru-si nap-har 


dan-nu-ti bit dirdni?'(ni) sa 


ol. 


32. 


34. 


30. 


36. 


38. 


39. 


I opened his treasure-house. Gold, 
silver, vessels of gold and _ silver, 
precious stones, beds, couches, palan- 
quins, his royal standards(?), whose 
inlay was of gold and silver, 

all kinds of property and goods, and 
without number,—an enormous treas- 
ure, his wife, his harem, his slave- 
girls( ?), his chamberlains, his officials, 
his courtiers, the male and female 
musicians, 


. the palace slaves, who gladdened his 


princely mind, all of the artisans, as 
many as there were, his palace meni- 
als(?), (these) I brought forth and 
counted as spoil. 

I hurried after him, sent my warriors 
to Guzummanu, into the midst of 
the swamps and marshes and they 
searched for him for five days, but his 
(hiding) place was not found. 

The rest of his horses and troops, 
who were without a place to go, 
who had fled from him like hinds 
and had not gone with him, I gathered 
together from the midst of plain and 
highland. 

In the course of my march the cities 
Amatu, Hauae, Supabu, Nukabu, 
Bit-Sannabi, Kutain, 

Kidrina, Diir-Ladini, Bitati, Banitu, 
Dar-Yansuri, Diar- 
Abiyata’, Dir-Rudumme 


Guzummanu, 


Bit-Rahé, Hapisha, Sadi-ilu, Hurudu, 
Sahrina, Iltuk, Allallu, Marad, Yaki- 
muna 

Kubruna, Bit-Kudurri, Sika-Marusi, 
in all 33 strong, walled cities of Bit- 
Dakkuri with 250 hamlets within their 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44, 


45, 


46. 


47. 


48. 


49. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 53 


™Dak-ku-ri a-di 250 aldni?' sihrtitir® 
Sa li-me-ti-su-nu 

‘Dir--Ta-ni-e °Dir- 
mSa-ma-~ °Sa-ar-ra-ba-tu “Sa-la-ha-tu 
‘Dir-"Ab-da-ai *“Sa-ap-pi-hi-ma-ri 
“Sib-tu sé “Ma-ak-ka-me-e 

nap-har 8 alan”! dan-nu-ti bit dtirani?! 
(nt) §é 'Bit-"Sa->-al-li a-di 120 aléni?! 
sthrati?! sa li-me-ti-su-nu 

‘Sa-pi-a  *Sa-ar-ra-ba-nu —- Larak** 
Parak-mar-ri(BAR.MAR.RI.KI) 
eBit-"Tlu-ba-ni_ °A-hu-du Sa-is-sur- 
4Adad “Sd-har-ra-tt “Ma-na-ah-hu 
Sd-a-me-li-e ‘Dir-"Ak-ki-ia ‘Na-gi-tu 
¢‘Nu-ur-a-bi-nu °Ha-ar-su-ar-ra °‘Dtr- 
™Ru-uk-bi ¢Dir- 
™Bir-Da-da 


‘Diir-"A p-pi-e 


¢Da-an-da-hul-la 


cBit-ri---e “(Dar-" U-qur-ri ‘Hi-in-da-i- 
na ‘Dir-"U-ai-it “Bit-"Ta-vi-ra-a “Sa- 
ap-hu-na °Bu-ha-ar-ru 
‘Har-be-"Iddina(na) °Har-be-"Kal-bi 
Sa-bar-ri-e °Bit-"Ba-ni-ilu-ti-a °Su- 
la-a-du °Bit-"Il-ta-ma-sa-ma-? °Bit- 
™Di-ni-ilu 

Da-ka-la *Ha-me-za °Be-la-a °Ta-i-ru 
‘Il-ta-ra-th  ‘°Ak-am 
(kar ?)-Sa-ki-na ‘Sa-ga-ba-tt sé ™Mar- 
duk-va 

nap-har 39 aldni?!’ dan-nu-ti sd ‘Bit- 
™A-muk-ka-a-ni a-di 350 alan?’ sih- 
riti?! $d li-me-ti-Su-nu 
eBit-Za-bi-di-ia = Larsa®* Kullab* 
Eridu®™ Ki-ts-sik®* °Ni-mid-*La-gu-da 
‘Dir-"La-ki-nt a-di °*Kar-4Nabi sa 
ki-sad "Mar-ra-ti 


¢Kip-ra-a-nu 


nap-har 8 alam?’ dan-nu-tr bit 
dtirani®'(ni) sé 'Bit-"La-ki-ni a-di 100 


v 


alani®! sihriti?’ sd li-me-ti-Su-nu 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44. 


46. 


47. 


48, 


49, 


borders; 
the cities Dair-Appé, Dar-Tané, Dir- 
Sama’, Sarrabatu, Salahatu, Ddtr- 


Abdai, Sappihimari, Sibtu-sha-Mak- 
kamé 

in all 8 strong, walled cities of Bit- 
Saralli, with 120 hamlets within their 
borders; 

the cities Sapia, Sarrabanu, Larak, 
Parak-marri (BAR.MAR.RI), Bit- 
Tu-bani, Ahudu, Sha-issur-Adad, Sha- 
harratu, Manahhu, 

Sha-amelé, Dir-Akkia, Nagitu, Nur- 
abinu, Harsuarra, Dtr-Rukbi, Dan- 
dahulla, Dir-Bir-Dada, 


Bit-r’e, Dir-Ugurri, Hindaina, Dir- 
Uait, Bit-Taurad, Saphuna, Buharru, 


. Harbe-Iddina, Harbe-Kalbi, Sha- 
barré, Bit-Bani-ilia, SulAdu, Bit- 
Iltamasama’, Bit-Dini-ilu, 

Dakala, Hameza, Bela, Tairu, 


Kipranu, Iltaratu, Akam(?)-shakina, 
Sagabatu-sha-Mardukia, 


in all 39 strong, walled cities of Bit- 
Amukk4ani, with 350 hamlets within 
their borders; 

the cities Bit-Zabidia, Larsa, Kullab, 
Kridu, Kissik, Nimid-Laguda, Dir- 
Yakini and Kar-Nabti which is (are) 
beside the Salt-sea (the Persian 
Gulf) 

in all 8 strong, walled cities of Bit- 
Yakin, with 100 hamlets within their 


_ borders; 


dl. 


qn 
Or 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


. nap-har 88 alani?'(nt) dan-nu-ti bit 


dirdni®'(nt) sd 'Kal-di a-di 820 
aldni[?"| sthrati?’ Sd li-me-ti-Su-nu 
al-me ak-si-ud as-lu-la Sal-la-su-un 
§e-im suluppa 8a ki-rib ki-ra-a-te-su-nu 
ebtira-Su-nu sé séri wummdni?'(n2) U- 
§a-kil ab-bul ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu 
a-na tillé?’ ma-si-t-ti U-tir 


, mUr-bi ™A-ra-mu “™Kal-du sd ki-rib 


Uruku®* Nippuru®’ Kis** Har-sag- 
kalam-ma** alt 'bél) 
[hi-d t-te! u-Se-sa-am-ma Ssal-la-ti-1§ am- 


a-di médré?! 


nu 


. Se-im suluppa sd ki-rib— ki-ra-a-te- 


Su-nu  me-ris ma-na-hi-su-nu — ebtir 


séri ba-mat [sadé(e)-su-nu! ummanie?! 
(nt) u-sa-kil 


. ™Bél-ibni mar rab bani pi-rim Siu- 


an-na™: ga ki-ma mi-ra-ni sa-ah-ri ki- 
rib. ekalli-ia ir-bu-&% [a-na Sarru-ul 
‘Akkadi u Sumert™ as-ta-kan eli-Su-un 


. t-na ta-ai-ar-ti-ia *"Tu--mu-na *"Ri- 


hi-hu °"Ia-dak-ku *U-bu-du ¢Kib- 
ri-[e ™Ma-li-hu “™Gu-ru-mu %”U\-bu- 
lu °™Da-mu-nu ™Gam-bu-lum “Hi- 
in-da-ru 


. ™Ru--u-a ™Bu-ku-du ’Ha-am-ra-a- 


nu #Ha-"ga'-ra-a-nu = *” Na-ba-tu 
am] 4-[>|-ta-a-[u “"A-ra-mu la kan- 
Su-ti mit-ha-\ri§ ak-Sud(ud)-ma as-lu- 
la sal-la-su-un 


. i-na me-ti-ik gir-ri-ia §4 ™4Nabi-bél- 


Sumate?'[*"|ki-pi °Ha-ra-ra-ti hurdsa 
kaspa “mul-suk-kan-ni| — rabiiti?! 
iméré[?? gammalé'?! alpé?' w sénice? 
man-da-ta-su ka-bit-tta am-hur 

1 That is, a Babylonian. 


50. 


51. 


52. 


53. 


56. 


57. 


a total of 88 strong, walled cities of 
Chaldea, with 820 hamlets within 
their borders, I besieged, I conquered, 
I carried away their spoil. 

The grain and dates which were in 
their plantations, their harvest of the 
plain, I had my army devour. I 
destroyed, devastated and burned 
with fire (their towns), and turned 
them into forgotten tells. 

The Arabs, Aramaeans, Chaldeans, 
who were in Uruk, Nippur, Kish, 
Harsagkalamma, together with the 
citizens, the rebels (sinners), I brought 
forth and counted as spoil. 

The grain and dates which were in 
their plantations, the planting of 
their garden-beds, the harvest of 
their plain and highlands(?) I had 
my troops devour. 


. Bél-ibni, son of a master-builder, a 


scion of Shuanna,! who like a young 
hound had grown up in my palace, I 
placed over them as king of Akkad 
and Sumer. 


. On my march back, the Tu’muna, the 


Rihihu, the Yadakku, the Ubudu, the 
Kipré, the Malihu, the Gurumu, the 
Ubulu, the Damunu, the Gambulu, 
the Hindaru, 

the Ru’ua, the Bukudu, the Hamranu, 
the Hagaranu, the Nabatu, the 
Li’tau,—Aramaeans, who were not 
submissive, all of them, I captured 
and I carried off as spoil. 

In the course of my campaign, I 
received the heavy tribute of Nabi- 
bél-shumate governor of Hararati,— 
gold, silver, great musukkanni-trees, 
asses, camels, cattle and sheep. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


. ba-hu-la-te °Hi-rim-me *nakru ag-su 


$d ul-tu ul-la a-na Sarrdni?'(nt) abé?'-ta 
la tk-nu-sv i-na “kakki u-sam-kit-ma 
na-pis-tum ul e-zib 


na-gu- Ssu-a-tu a-na es-si-ti as-bat 
istén(en) alpa 10 immeré?' 10 imér 
kardna 20 imér suluppa ri-se-te-Su a-na 
gi-ni-e wlan?’ "Assurk* bélé?'a u-kin 
da-ri-sam 

at-tt 208,000 sal-lat nisé?' ka-bit-tum 
7,200 sisé?! paré?! 11,078 iméré?! 5,230 
gammalé?! 80,050 alpé?' 800,100 séniee' 
zinnisdte?’ (lahrdte?') a-tu-ra a-na ki- 
rib Assur** 

e-2ib nisé?! iméré?’ gammalé?! alpé?! u 
sénie®’ is-"tul wmmdndte’’'-ia_ e-bu-ku- 
nim-ma a-na ra-ma-ni-su-nu_ ts-ki-lu 
si-kal-tu 

wu ba-hu-la-te na-ki-ri. sip-su be-ru sa 
al-na ni-] ri-a la ik-nu-st i-na “kakkt 
a-sam-kit-ma a-lul ga-si-ses 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


55 


The warriors of Hirimmu, evil ene- 
mies, who from of old had not sub- 
mitted to any of the kings, my fathers, 
I slew with the sword. Not a soul 
escaped. 

That district I reorganized: one ox, 
10 lambs, 10 homers of wine, 20 homers 
of dates, of his best, as standing dues 
for the gods of Assyria, my lords, 
I established for all time. 

I returned to Assyria with 208,000 
men, a huge spoil, 7,200 horses and 
mules, 11,073 asses, 5,230 camels, 
80,050 cattle, 800,100 ewes. 


This does not include the men, asses, 
camels, cattle and sheep which my 
troops had carried off and parcelled 
out among themselves. 

And the enemy warriors, strong and 
proud,! who had not submitted to 
my yoke, I cut down with the 
sword and hung on stakes. 


(The remainder of this document, containing the record of Sennacherib’s early 
building activities, is given on pp. 94 f.) 


II. CAMPAIGNS ONE AND TWO (THE BELLINO CYLINDER B1) 


. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba Sarru rabai sarru 


dan-nu sar 'Assur** Sarru la sa-na-an 
ri-é-um = mut-nin-nu-% pa-lih dani?! 
rabiti?! 


. na-sir kit-t ra--im mi-sa-ri_ e-pis 


u-sa-a-li a-lik tap-pu-ut a-ki-v sa-hi-ru 
dam-ka-a-tt 


. id-lu git-ma-lum zi-ka-ru kar-du a-sa- 


rid kal ma-al-ki rab-bu la--7t la ma-gi- 
rt mu-sab-ri-ku za-ma-a-ne 


if 


2. 


Sennacherib, the great king, the 
mighty king, the king of Assyria, the 
king without a rival; the pious ruler 
(shepherd), fearing the great gods; 
guardian of the right, lover of justice, 
who lends support, who comes to the 
aid of the needy, who turns (his 
thoughts) to pious deeds; 


. perfect hero, mighty man, first among 


all princes, the powerful one who con- 
sumes the insubmissive, who strikes 
the wicked with the thunderbolt :— 


' The same epithets are applied to Hezekiah, cf. p. 77, 1. 21. 


“I 


10. 


1 he 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


4A SSur Sadai(u) rabi(%) Sarru-ut la 
Sa-na-an %-Sat-li-ma-an-ni-ma eli gi- 


mir a-sib pa-rak-ki ~~ %1-Sar-ba-a 
~kakk é?'-1a 
.t-na res sarru-ti-ia sé ™Marduk- 


apla-iddina(na) sar 'Kar-dun-id-as 
a-di ummdanat?*! Elamti** i-na ta-mir-ti 


Kis** as-ta-kan tahtd-su 


e-zib 
karas-su e-dig ip-par-sid-ma a-na 'Gu- 


i-na kabal tam-ha-ri st-a-tu 
zu-um-ma-ni in-na-bit ki-rib "a-gam- 
me Ww ap-pa-ra-a-le e-ru-wm-ma_ na- 


pis-tus e-ti-ir 


. “narkabdte?’ “su-wm-bi sisé?’ paré?! 


amére?? gammalé?! wu **rud-ri. Sd i-na 
kit-ru-ub ta-ha-zi t-mas-si-ru tk-si-da 
kata?-ar 

a-na ekalli-su sa ki-rib Babile® ha-dis 
e-ru-um-ma ap-te-e-ma bit ni-sir-ti-su 
hurdsa kaspa t-nu-tti hurdsi kaspi 
abna a-kar-tu. mimma sum-sii busa 
makktra ni-sir-tu ka-bit-tu 


. assat-su. sinnisdte?'-ekalli(Sigréti ?)-Su 


amtiy éP! amman-za-az pa-ni si-hir-tt um- 
ma-a-ni ma-la ba-si-t@ mut-tab-bi-lu-tu 
ekalli %-Se-sa-am-ma Ssal-la-tis am-nu 
as-bat-ma arki-su a-na 'Gu-zu-um-ma- 
ni *mun-dah-si-ia a-na ki-rib "a-gam- 
me wu ap-pa-ra-a-te %-ma--ir-ma 6 
a-me i-pa(ba)-ru-nim-ma ul in-na-mir 
a-Sar-S& 


i-na e-muk “A ssur béli-ia 89 alani?'(nt) 
dan-nu-ti bit-dtirdni?'(nt) sé “Kal-di vu 
820 alani?! sihriti?! $4 li-Kme-ti>-Su-nu 


al-me ak-Sud(ud) as-lu-la sal-la-su-un 


4. 


oO 


10. 


mLy 


the god Assur, the great mountain, 
has entrusted to me an unrivalled 
kingship and above all those who 
dwell in palaces, has made powerful 
my weapons. 

At the beginning of my kingship, I 
brought about the overthrow of 
Merodach-baladan, king of Baby- 
lonia, together with the armies of 
Elam, in the plain of Kish. 

In the midst of that battle he forsook 
his camp, made his escape alone, 
fled to Guzummanu, went into the 
swamp and marshes, and (thus) 
saved his life. 


. The chariots, wagons, horses, mules, 


asses, camels and dromedaries which 
he had forsaken at the onset of 
battle, my hands seized. 

Into his palace in Babylon I entered 
joyfully and I opened his treasure- 
house :—gold, silver, vessels of gold 
and silver, precious stones of all 
kinds, goods and property, an enor- 
mous (heavy) treasure, 

his wife, his harem, his courtiers and 
officials, all of his artisans, as many as 
there were, his palace servants, I 
brought out, I counted as spoil, 

I seized. I sent my soldiers after 
him to Guzummanu, into the midst of 
the swamps and marshes, and for five 
days they hunted him, but his 
(hiding)-place was not found (lit. 
seen). 

In the might of Assur, my lord, 89 of 
the strong, walled cities of Chaldea, 
and 820 small cities of their environs 
I besieged, I conquered, I carried off 
their spoil. 


12. 


13. 


14. 


15. 


16. 


ive 


18. 


SE 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 57 


amUr-bi o™A-ra-mu wu ™Kal-du sd 
ki-rib Uruku®? Nippuru®* Kis** Har- 
sag-kalam-ma Kutu''<a-di>  marér! 
ali bél hi-it-tv u-Se-sa-am-ma_ Sal-la- 
tis am-nu 


md Bél-ibni mar *rab bani pi-ir--u Su- 
an-na** sad kima mi-ra-a-nt sa-ah-ri 
ki-rib ekalli-ia ir-bu-t a-na sarru-ut 
‘Sumeri a Akkadi*’ ag-ta-kan eli-Su-wn 


i-na ta-ai-ar-ti-ia °"Tu--mu-na “Ri- 
hi-hu °Ia-dak-ku °”U-bu-du «™Kib- 
ri-e @™Ma-li-hu ™Gu-ru-mu °”U-bu- 
lum * Da-mu-nu 

am(am-bu-lu *”Hi-in-da-ru %™Ru--u-a 
omBy-ku-du %Ha-am-ra-a-nu °Ha- 
ga-ra-nu *”"Na-ba-tu “Li->-ta-a-t %"A- 
ra-mu la kan-Su mit-ha-ris ak-sud(ud) 


208,000 nisé?! zik-ru zinnistu 7,200 
sisé?' uw paré?’ 11,073 iméré?' 5,230 
gammalé?! §0,100  alpé?’ 800,500 
sénie®! gal-la-tu ka-bit-tu as-lu-la a-na 
ki-rib Assur** 

i-na me-ti-ik gir-ri-ia sa ™4Nabi-bél- 
Sumate?! °"ki-pr *Ha-ra-ra-ti hurdsa 
kaspa “mu-suk-kan-ni rabiite?! imér ér! 
gammalé?! alpé?! w séni°?! ta-mar-ta-Su 
ka-bit-tu am-hur 


ba-hu-la-ti °Hi-rim-me *nakru ak-su 
&é ul-tu ul-la a-na ni-ri-ia la kit-nu- 
si i-na “kakki t-sam-kit-ma na-pis- 
tu ul e-zib 

na-gu-% Sst-a-tu a-na es-su-ti as-bat 
istén(en) alpa 10 immeré?’ 10 imér 
kardna 20 imér suluppa_ ri-se-te-su 
a-na tldni?'(n2) ‘A ssur** bélé?'-ca u-kin 
da-ri-sam 


12. 


13. 


14. 


15. 


16. 


Li 


18. 


Wes 


The Arabs, Aramaeans and Chaldeans 
who were in Erech, Nippur, Kish, 
Kutha, 
with the citizens (of these places), 
the rebels (sinners), I brought out, I 
counted as spoil. 


Harsagkalamma, together 


Bél-ibni, the son of a master builder, 
a scion of Shuanna (Babylon), who 
had grown up in my palace like a 
young hound, I set over them as king 
of Sumer and Akkad. 

On my return (march), the Tu’muna, 
Rihihu, Yadakku, Ubudu, 
Malihu, Gurumu, Ubulu, Damunu, 


Kipré, 


Gambulu, Hindaru, Ru’fa, Bukudu, 
Hamranu, Nabatu, 
Li’tau,—Aramaeans (who were) not 
submissive, all 
quered. 
208,000 people, male and female, 
7,200 horses and mules, 11,073 asses, 
5,280 camels, 80,100 cattle, 800,500 
sheep, an enormous spoil, I carried 
off to Assyria. 

In the course of my campaign, I 
received Nabt-bél-shumate, 
governor of the city of Hararate, 


Hagaranu, 


Or ytnem: aL. con- 


from 


gold, silver, great musukkani-trees, 
asses, camels, cattle and sheep, as 
his onerous contribution. 

The warriors of Hirimme, wicked 
enemies, who from of oJd had not 
submitted to my yoke, I cut down 
with the sword. Not a soul escaped. 
That district (province) I reorgan- 
ized: One. ox, 10 lambs, 10 homers of 
wine, 20 homers of dates, its choicest, 
(as gifts) for the gods of Assyria, my 
lords, I established for all time. 


58 


20. 


Pale 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


i-na Sané(e) gir-ri-ia “Assur be-lt %- 
tak-kil-an-ni-ma a-na mat *”Kas-si-t u 
mat Ia-su-bi-gal-la-ai *“nakri ak-si sd 
ul-tu ul-la a-na Sarrdni?'(ni) abé?'-ia 
la kit-nu-s% lu al-lik 


ki-rib hur-Sa-a-ni zak-ru-te ekil nam- 
ra-si i-na sisi ar-kab-ma “narkabat 
sépat-ia i-na tt-ik-ka-a-te u-Sa-as-s1 
as-ru Sup-sti-ku i-na sépa@-ia ri-ma- 
nis at-tag-gis 


¢Bit-"Ki-lam-za-ah al dan-nu-ti-su-nu 
al-me ak-Sud(ud) nisé?’ sihir rabit 
sisé?! paré?! iméré?! alpé?’ wu sénie?! 
ul-tu kir-bi-sv u-se-sa-am-ma Sal-la-tis 
am-nu 

aldni®'-Su-nu sihriti?’ sad ni-ba la 
1-su-t% ab-bul ak-kur w-se-me kar-mes 
bit sért kul-ta-ri_ tu-kul-ti-Su-nu _ i-na 
girrt ak-mu-ma ti-tal-lig %-se-lum (for 
mt) 


u-tir-ma ‘Bit-"Ki-lam-za-ah  Su-a-tu 
a-na bir-tu-ti as-bat eli Sd t-me pa-ni 
u-dan-nin a-muh-hus nisé?' méatdate 
ki-Sit-ti kdta?-ia ina lib-bi t-se-s1b 


nise?’ mat Kas-si-1 u mat Ta-su-bi- 
gal-ai $4 la-pa-an “kakké?'-va ip-par-si- 
du ul-tu ki-rib Sad? (<) u-Se-ri-dam-ma i- 
na °Har-dis-pi “bit-"Ku-bat-tt u-sar-me 


i-na kata’ °su-ut-rési-ia “bel pihate 
cAr-rap-ha am-nu-su-nu-te 
u-se-pis-ma_ li-i-tum_ ka-sit-ti 


abnun ard 
kata 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 


In my second campaign, Assur, my 
lord, encouraged me, and against the 
land of the Kassites and the land of 
the Yasubigallai, wicked enemies, 
who from of old had not been submis- 
sive to the kings, my fathers, I 
marched. 

In the midst of the high mountains I 
rode on horseback, where the terrain 
was difficult, and had my chariot 
drawn up with ropes; where it 
became too steep, I clambered up 
on foot like the wild-ox. 
Bit-kilamzah, their stronghold, I 
besieged, I captured. People, great 
and small, horses, mules, asses, cattle 
and sheep, I brought out from its 
midst and counted as booty. 

Their small cities, which were num- 
berless, I destroyed, I devastated, I 
turned into ruins. The houses of the 
steppe, (namely) the tents for their 
protection (i.e., wherein they dwelt), 
I set on fire and turned them into (a 
mass of) flames. 

I turned round, and made that Bit- 
Kilamzah into a fortress,—I made 
its defences stronger than they had 
ever been before, and settled therein 
people of the lands my hands had 
conquered. 

The people of the land of the Kassites 
and the land of the Yasubigallai, 
who had fled before my arms, I 
brought down out of the mountains 
and settled them in Hardishpi and 
Bit-Kubatti. 

Into the hand(s) of my official, the 
governor of Arrapha, I placed (lit. 
counted) them. I had a stela made, 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


Sd eli-Su-un as-lak-ka-nu_ si-ru-us-su 
u-sa-as-tir-ma kir-bi ala ul-ziz 


pa-an ni-ri-ia %-tir-ma a-na 'EIl-li-pi 
as-sa-bat har-ra-nu el-la-mu-u-a ™Is- 
pa-ba-a-ra Sarru-su-un aldn?'-su dan- 
nu-tt bit-ni-sir-ti-Su W-mas-sir-ma a-na 
ru-ki-e-ti on-na-bit 


gim-ri_ mati-si rapasti(ti) ki-ma zt as- 
hu-up °Mar-t-bis-ti ¢Ak-ku-ud-du 
aldni’ bit Sarru-ti-su a-di 34 aldni”! 
dan-nu-ti u aldni?’ sihraite?’ Sa li-me- 
ti-Su-nu sd ni-ba la 1-su-t 


ab-bu-ul ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu-ma 
kiréti?'-Su-nu ak-sit ela ugaré?'-Su-un 
hab-su-tt sa-har-ra-tum at-bu-uk ‘EIl- 


li-pi a-na pat gim-ri-sa_ ar-bu-ta 
u-sa-lik 
nse?! sthir rabt zikaru wu zinnistu sisé?! 


paré?’ iméré?’ alpé?’ w séniee! la mi- 
nam as-lu-lam-ma a-di la ba-si-e %1-Sa- 
lik-Su-nu-tt 


°$i-si-cr-tu ‘Ku-um-ma-ah-lum 
alam”! dan-nu-ti a-di alani?! sthriti”! 
Sd li-me-ti-Su-nu(?) "Bit-Bar-ru-t na- 
gu-u a-na gi-mir-ti-Su  ul-tu ki-rib 
mati-su ab-tuk-ma eli mi-sir 'Assur** 
u-rad-di 


¢Hl-en-za-as a-na al sarru-ti u dan-na- 
at na-gi-e su-a-tu as-bat-ma Sum-su 
mah-ra-a t-nak-kir-ma °Kar-"4Sin- 
ahé?'-eri-ba at-ta-bi ni-bit-su 


RCfip768)n))1, 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


59 


and the might of my conquering 
hand which I had established upon 
them, I had inscribed thereon. In 
the midst of the city I set it up. 

The front of my yoke I turned (that 
is, | turned about) and took the road 
to the land of the Elippi. 
me (my approach) Ispabdra, their 


Before 


king, forsook his strong cities, his 
treasure-houses (cities), and fled to 
distant (parts). 

Over the whole of his wide land I 
swept like a hurricane. The cities 
Marubishti and Akkuddu, his royal 
residence-cities, together with 34 
strong cities and the small cities of 
their environs, which were without 
number, 

I destroyed, I devastated, I burned 
with fire. Their orchards I cut down, 
over their fertile( ?) fields I poured out 
misery. The Ellipi, in their totality, 
I brought to naught. 

The people, great and small, male 
and female, horses, mules, asses, 
cattle and sheep, without number, I 
carried off and brought them to 
naught. 

Sisirtu. and Kummahlum, — strong 
cities, together with the small cities 
of their environs, the district (prov- 
ince) of Bit-Barrd, in its totality, 
I cut off from his land and added it 
to the territory (lit. border) of 
Assyria. 

Elenzash I turned into the royal city 
and stronghold of that district. I 
changed its former name, calling its 
(new) name Kar-Sennacherib. 


60 


33. 


campaigns one to three. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


i-na ta-ai-ar-ti-ia §é 'Ma-da-ai ru-ku- 
ti $d i-na Sarradni?'(ni) abé?'-ia ma-am- 
man la is-mu-u zi-kir matdti?'-su-un 
man-da-ta-su-nu ka-bit-l% am-hur a-na 
ni-ri_ be-lu-ti-ia t-Sak-ni-su-nu-ti 


33. 


On my return I received the heavy 
tribute of the distant Medes, whose 
name no one among the kings, my 
fathers, had (ever) heard; to the 
yoke of my rule I made them submit. 


(Continued on p. 99) 


Li 


RECORDS WRITTEN SOON AFTER THE THIRD CAMPAIGN 


(THE RASSAM CYLINDER, Cl) 


(The text of the ““Rassam Cylinder,” written 700 B.C., became the standard text for 


(See pp. 23 f.) 


Only the closing lines of the historical section, 


which were omitted in the later editions, are here given.) 


56. 


57. 


58. 


59. 


30 bilta hurdsa 800 bilta kaspa ni-sik-te 
gu-uh-li dag-gas-st "™sdndé?! rabite”! 
wirser! sinni Vkussé?! ni-me-di sinne 
masak piri sin pirt “usu “urkarinnu 
lu-bul-ti bir-me *“’“kitti stpdtu ta-kil- 
tu Sipdtu ar-ga-man-nu 


a-nu-ut siparrt parzillt ert andkr 
parzilli “narkabdte?’ ga-ba-bi as-ma- 
ri-e si-ri-ia-am patre?’ parzilli sib-bi 
pit-pa-ni wu us-si til-li G-nu-ut ta-ha-z0 
Sa? ni-ba la 1-su-% 

it-ti mdrdte?®-su zinnisdt?!’ ekalli-su 
amzammeré?! Szammerdte?! i-na* ki-rib 
eNinua?> al be-lu-ti-ia arki-ia u-se-bi- 
lam-ma a-na na-dan man-da-at-tt wu 
e-pis ardu-t-li is-pu-ra rak-bu-su 


i-na_ Ssal-la-at mdtdti?’ sa-ti-na Sd 
as-lu-la 10,000 “kasti 10,000 “a-ri-tu® 
ana lib-bi-su-nu ak-sur-ma elt ki-sir? 
Sarru-ti-ia t-rad-di 
1 C4, om. 

4 C2, 3, a-na. 


2 G2, 3, Sd. 
5 C2, 3, 4, Ninuaki, 


56. 


57. 


59. 


. together with 


(In addition to the) thirty talents of 
gold, 800 talents of silver, (there 
were) gems (precious stones), anti- 
mony, jewels(?), great sandu-stones 
(carnelian ?) ivory beds, house-chains 
of ivory, elephant hides, ivory (ele- 
phant’s tusks, teeth), ebony(?), box- 
wood(?), colored garments, garments 
of linen, violet and purple wool, 
vessels of copper, iron, bronze, lead, 
iron, chariots, shields, lances, armor, 
girdle-daggers of iron, bows and 
arrows, spears, countless implements 
of war, 

his daughters, his 
palace-women, his male and female 
musicians (which) he had (them) 
bring after me to Nineveh, my royal 
city. To pay tribute and to accept 
servitude, he dispatched his mes- 
senger(s). 

From the booty of those lands which 
I plundered, 10,000 bows, 10,000 
shields I took therefrom and added 
them to my royal equipment. 


3 SAL-TUR-MES, C2, 3, 4, TUR-SAL-MES. 


6 C3, 4, tu. 7C8, adds rim. 


60. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


si-it-ti:_ Sal-la-ti na-ki-ri_ ka-bit-tu a-na 
ambél prihati-ia 
nisé?! ma-ha-za'-ni-ia rabtite?’ ki-ma 


‘ 


gi-mir kardsi-ia wu 


st-e-nt lu t-za-?-12 


60. 


61 


The rest of the heavy booty (taken 
from) the enemy, I divided like sheep 
among my whole camp (army) as 
well as my governors and the citizens 
of my large cities. 


(Continued on p. 102) 


IV. RECORDS WRITTEN AFTER THE FIFTH CAMPAIGN 


(At the close of the historical section containing the standard record of campaigns 
one to five [see pp. 23 f.], BM, 103,000 has the account of two campaigns conducted by 
Sennacherib’s generals.) 


a) CAMPAIGN AGAINST CILICIA, 698 B.C. (BM, No. 103,000. 


“Gol IV 


61. 
62. 
63. 
64. 
65. 
66. 


67. 
68. 


69. 


70. 
ay 
72. 
73. 
74. 


75. 
76. 
(ee 


i-na li-mu ™Sulmu(mu)-bélu °sa-kin 
¢Ri-mu-st 

™Ki-ru-a “hazdnu sd *Il-lu-ub-ri 
amardu da-gil pa-ni-ia Sd 12-zi-bu-su 
land? '-Su 

ba-hu-la-te *Hi-lak-ki 

us-bal-kit-ma tk-su-ra ta-ha-zu 


nisé P'a-si-bu-ut “In-gi-ra-a wu °Tar-zt 


i-da-a-su ts-hu-ru-ma gir-rt ‘Ku-e 
is-ba-tu tp-ru-su a-lak-tu 


amsGbé?' “kastt na-si tuk-si(ki?) w as- 
ma-ri-e 

narkabati?! sisé”’ ki-sir Sarru-ti-ia 
U-Ma-2-t" §t-rUu-US-SU-UN 

Sd ba-hu-la-te ‘Hi-lak-ki 

8a i-da-a-Su ts-hu-ru 

i-na ki-rib Sadi(t) mar-st 7is-ku-nu 
tah-ta-su-un 

°In-gi-ra-a °Ta-ar-zu ik-si-du-ma 
18-lu-lu sal-la-su-un 

Sa-a-su ki-rib ¢Ll-lu-ub-ri_ al dan-nu- 
ti-su 


1C4, zz. 


61. 


62. 
63. 


E1) 


In the eponymy of Shulmu-bél, the 
governor of Rimusi, 

Kirua, prefect of Illubru, 

a slave, subject to me, whom his gods 
forsook, 


64-65. caused the men of Hilakku (Cili- 


66. 


67. 
68. 


69. 


cia) to revolt, and made ready for 
battle. 

The people who dwelt in Ingiraé and 
Tarsus 

came to his aid (lit. side) and 

seized the Kue (Cilician) road, block- 
ing traffic. 

Bowmen, bearers of shield and lance, 


. chariots, horses, my royal host, 

. L sent against them. 

. The defeat of the men of Hilakku 

. who had come to his aid, 

. they brought about in the midst of a 


difficult mountain. 


. Ingira and Tarsus they took 
. and carried off their spoil. 
. That one they besieged and attacked 


in Ilubru, his stronghold 


62 


Col. 
78. 


19; 


80. 


81. 


82. 


83. 


84. 


86. 


87. 


88. 


89. 


90. 


OL 


Col. 


Oop wb 


~] 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


IV 

ni-tum wl-mu-si-ma is-ba-tu mu-su-st 
i-na kur-ru-ub si-pi-e nim-gal-li dari 
zu-uk 


u  kal-ban-na-te  muit-hu-su 


tap-da-a-Su is-ku-nu-ma is-ba-tu ala 
™Ki-ru-a “hazdnu a-di Sal-lat alaéni?'!- 
Su 


au nisé?’ ¢Hi-lak-ki &a 1-da-a-su 


is-hu-ru a-di iméré?! alpé?! wW si-e-ni 


. a-na °“Ni-na-a a-di mah-ri-ia ub-lu-ni 


Sa ™Ki-ru-a ma-sak-su a-ku-us 
a-tir-ma ‘Il-lu-ub-ru a-na_ es-sti-te 
as-bat 

nisé?! matdtt ki-sit-ti kdtdt-ia i-na 
lib-bi. v-Se-sib 


vkak ¢Assur béli-ia ki-rib-Su t-sar-me 
abnungrd(a) $4 %"“pariitu t-se-pis-ma 


ma-har-su ul-zi-1z 


78. 
Fash 


80. 


81. 


83. 


84. 
85. 


86. 
87. 


88. 


89. 


90. 


‘phe 


and prevented his escape. 

With the assault of siege-engines and 
“oreat wall flies” (some siege-engine), 
followed by a rush through the 
breaches(?) (and) the attack of the 
foot-soldiers, 

they brought about their overthrow 
and took the city. 


. Kirua, the prefect, together with the 


spoil of his cities, 

and the people of Hilakku, who had 
come to his aid, 

with asses, cattle and sheep, 

they brought to Nineveh into my 
presence. 

I flayed Kirua. 

I restored Illubru again: 


people of the lands which my hands 
had conquered, I settled therein. 
The weapon of Assur, my lord, I 
established in its midst. 

An alabaster stela I had (them) 
fashion 

and set up before him (Assur or 
the “‘weapon”’ of Assur). 


b) CAMPAIGN AGAINST TILGARIMMU, 695 B.C. (H1, CONTINUED) 


Vv 


. tna li-mu “AsSur-bél-usur %™Sa-kin 


. a-na °Til-ga-ri-[im-mu|] 
. a-lum sa pa-a-tri 'Ta-[ba-li] 


sé "Hi-di-i sarru-tu-[us-su] 


. ir-ku-su kakké[P'-ca] 
. as-su-uk-ma esdbé?! “kasti na-st [tuk- 


Si(ki)] 


. u as-ma-ri-e “narkabati?’ si[sé]P! 
. ki-sir Sarru-ti-ia t-ma--ir s[t-r]u-us-su 


UCP pa77 24. 


de 


Oo ore W bb 


In the eponymy of Assur-bél-usur, 
the governor of .... 


. against Til-garimmu,} 

. a city on the border of Tabalu, 

. whose kingdom Hidi 

. had consolidated, 

. I leveled my weapons. Bowmen, 


bearers of shield 


. and lance, chariots, horses, 


8. 


my royal host, I sent against him. 


Col. 
. alu Si-a-tum ni-i-tum al-[m]u-ma 


10. 
aL, 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
ve 
18. 


19. 
20. 


21. 
22. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


V 


i-na 'mas'-pak e-pi-"ri ww) kur-ru-ub 
Su-pt-t 
mit-hu-su zu-[uk sépad™ is'-ba-tu ala 


nisér! a-di ilani?’ a-[sib  lib-bi-su] 
am-nu sal-la-ti-is 

alu Sti-a-tum[...... ] tk-ku-ru 
a-na tili wv [kar-me] v-tir-ru 


i-na sal-lat matatr?' [sd] as-lu-la 


30,000 “k[astu 
i-na [lib-bi-Su-nu] ak-sur-ma 
elli ki-sir Sarru-ti-ia] %-rad-di 


[s¢-2t-t7 Sal-lat na-ki-ri] ka-bit-tu 
[a-na gi-mir karasi-ia| bél-pihdati?'-ia 


[wu nesé?’ ma-ha-za-ni-ia] rabiite?! 
[kima si-e-ni lu] t-za-?-tz 


9. 
10. 


ks 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
Ali 
18. 


19; 
20. 


21. 
22. 


63 


That city I besieged, and 

by the throwing up of earth (works) 
and the assault of siege-engines, 

the rush and attack of foot-soldiers, 
they captured the city. 

The people, together with the gods 
dwelling there, I counted as spoil. 
That city they devastated, 
to tells and ruins they turned it. 
From the spoil of the lands which I 
plundered, 

30,000 bows(?) . . . . shields, 

I gathered from among them 

and added them _ to 
equipment. 

The rest of the heavy spoil of the foe 
among the whole of my camp, my 
provincial governors, 

and the people of my large cities, 

I divided like sheep. 


my royal 


.c) THE ROCK INSCRIPTIONS ON THE JUDI DAGH (E3) 


. *Assur 4Sin 4Samas ¢Adad 


2. (MAS w “star ildni® ‘rabite le? 


. an-ni-ku-un 


. $d i-di Sarri me-ig-"ri'-Su-un 


. 1-2a-zu-ma eli kul-lat "na!-ki-ri 
. U-sam-ra-ru “kakk é?'-su 
. ™Sin-ahé-eriba 


Sarru. rabbi Ssarru 


dan-nu 


. Sar kissati Sar "A SSur** rubt na->i-du 


. ti-ri-is katd*"-ku-un sa3 i-na4 


oie ee eee i-'tal'-la- 


ku-ma 


La, uU: 


2 a inserts 84 vi-Ikan(?)1-na-bu kal(?) ma-al-ki. 


3 ¢, Sd. 


49 and ¢, ina. 


I, 
2. 
3. 


On 


Assur, Sin, Shamash, Adad, 

Ninib and Ishtar, the great gods, 
who stand at the side of the king, their 
favorite, . 


. and make bitter his 
. arms against all enemies: 
. Sennacherib, 


the great king, the 


mighty king, 


. king of the universe, king of Assyria, 


the exalted prince, 


. to whom your (the gods’) hands are 


stretched out, who through 


. your grace advances (triumphantly), 


c probably had same addition. 


64 THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


10. mdtdte”!' la ma-gi-ri sabé”' hur-sa-ni} 10-11. bringing in submission at his feet 

11. la-kan-st-ti? v-Sak-ni-si Se-pu-us-Su insubmissive lands (v. kings) and 
| unyielding mountain peoples.— 

12. ina ti-me-su-ma °Tu-mur-ra 12. At that time the cities of Tumurra, 

13. “Sa-ri-im ‘Hal-gid-dat 13. Sharim, Halgidda, 

14. ¢K7i-ib-sa °“H-sa-a-ma °Ku-u-a 14. Kibsha, Esima, Kia, (and) 

15. *‘Ka-na §d° me-sir “Kit’-mu-hi 15. Kana, which are on the border of 

Kutmuhu (Commagene) 

16. Sa kima kin-ni nasri si-ir 16. and, like the nest of the eagle, 

17. ubdnat?! §°¢Ni-pur sad-di-v 17-18. are situated upon the peaks of 

18. sit-ku-na-at su-bat-su-un Mt. Nipur; 


19. $d? ul-té® ul-la ina sarrdni?! abér'-id® 19. who from days of old, in (the time of) 
the kings, my fathers, 


20. sip-su be-ru la i-du-t 20. were strong and proud, not knowing 
21. pa-lah be-lu-ti ina palé bélu-ti-ia 21. the fear of (Assyrian) rule,—in the 
time of my rule, 

22. ildni?'-Su-un 7i-zi-bu- 22. their gods deserted 

23. Su-nu-ti-ma t-sab-su-u 23. them and left them 

24, 71-Keu-ul—"su-un ss ee nee 24; CMPLYE : coma cme ere eee 

Bisset) <2. tena DOU. Mere emcee hi: “255 Gane tsk ne Ae eee 

Pay lara ee Me oes, a 2 ul-tt ri-Se 26. .... . from the sources 

PAE Pe thy AR a "Idiglat QT ok cits a egay eee Cem ELE 

COU: eo sh aie .. fal-na AsSur** 28.) hs casas ee tee ee Tee UO pane iee 

DO nce” 5 SEMI ay Sam reuae ema er 29 5 eee shen atety fe) uke eee 

BUM tes kere WN TILT Caan cee antares aj maru~ 30. 2°5).>: 2s wn DOC ARS Vlas. yee 
5) a erat 0S mere ae cy oe re 

BL NeURAUL-OUls ew ot eee Cie ae da, -31. they sank.in the rivers... eee 


1 Instead of this line ec, Sarrdénipl [sabécoll [hur-sa-ni]. The following line of c, of which only a 
few traces remain, seems to have differed considerably from b; e seems to have had the same text 
as ¢. 

2d, te. 6 The old Assyrian spelling. Cf. AJSL, XXVIII (1912), 178, n. 

3d, Su. Td) sa; 

4e has town names in dif. order? 8d, tu. 

5d and e, Sa. 9d, 7a. 


10 The text of the different panels seems to have varied very considerably at this point. In a only 
the beginnings of the lines are preserved: 23. i-na [Sarraniv!(?)] .... 24. ildni-Su-un.... 


2h. ted. NGl-pur >...’ . 26 daG?)-i sul, negeemele oP on csa ae 28. 4ASSur béli. ... 29. ti 
Sa-a8-kin-ma...... The text of d runs: 24. tldni-su-un 7-zi-bu-su-nu-ti-ma v-sab-8u-% ~—.25.. fri- 
[Ut =SU=UT ne ese eee ti SadtNi-pur].... 26. vu-8ah(?)-ma(?)-tu(?) Tal-na......-... 

27. vi-ma(?) tr Cpul-su lski-ril vi-ta-bu .... 28. si-[ru]-fuSl-su-un fal-lik sépadd-] sadNi-pur 


RES Se wi Pina, 


32. 


33. 


. git-ma-'lu'-tr *4Ni-pur a-na§ 


gALy3. 


- ana. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 65 


si-ru-us-Su-un! al-lik sépat §4Ni-pur 
Sadi(t) ka-ra-Si 
ui-sa-as-kint-ma ow&..... ~ sabé?! 
i-pis tahazi-a* 

gu-nt 
a rector ti al-me ‘har-ri! na-ad- 


ba-ki Sadér! 


si-ir ubdndte?™ Sa-ka-ti 


fo ia SNe Wiel. Je 


. -na wkusst 
ri-sa-'su-un' 
Atego eae ier kima 


[as-bat| 


a 9 © ‘oe ¢ (6, ‘« ‘e. -8 @ 


alpurhmy 


'pa-nu-us-sun! la'-gar ina 


vkusst 

CUE cet ae Sup-si-ku ina [sépat]- 
la as-tah-hi-id 

oe eet Le = he ee ae ki-ma]  ar-me 
a-[Sar] bir-ka-ai 
shes A Pea ae 5 7-Sa-a = ma-na-ah-[tu] 


's?-ir aban! Sadé(e) u-sib-ma 


. mer! Imasaknq-q-di' ka-su-ti a-na su- 


um-me-1a ‘lu! as-ti 
SUSE SSC ary eee [aldni|! 
al-me akSud(ud)® ak-ku-ur'! 


Ag 


Sa-a-tu-nu 


AS ee eee la la ra(?) 


. 'mul-tah) 7-ti-Su-nu si-ir ubdn [§4|Ni- 


pur 
-li-Su-nu_ si-ir zuk-te 


Sadé(e) 

1f, ki-in. 

2f, sabér! ta-ha-zi-ia, 
3a-na restored from f. 


4d, [u-ba-na-a]-li Sa{ka-tr]. 


32. 


33. 


34. 


35 


36. 


ol. 


o8. 


39 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44 


45 


46. 


47. 


against them I went. (At) the foot 
of Mt. Nipur 


I pitched my camp and I 


©, 6) .¢) 6” ef 6) "<¢ 


my choice warriors 
who fight my battle(s). Mt. Nipur 
EOD Mews Meier Pet eek 
rae cas es I_ besieged. 
mountain torrents, 

[I surmounted in my (sedan-)chair] 
to the high(est) summits, 


Gullies, 


WICH te cee eee te co the stars 
of heaven . . 

COP ere as Ses on my _ (sedan-) 
OAC NTT SS 2 ye Nn en oa 

Any oe eee like a wild bull I went 


before them. Where it was 


too steep for my (sedan-)chair, I 
advanced on foot like 

a young gazelle (ibex). Where my 
knees 

(failed) and found a resting-place, I 
sat down on (some) mountain boulder 
and 

drank the cold water from the water- 
skin (to quench) my thirst. 

paps ce sidered s cities I be- 
sieged, I (wenadds, I 
carried off their booty, I destroyed), 
I devastated. 


those 
conquered 


their rebellious people on (to) the 
top of Mt. Nipur 
I—their—; to the mountain-tops, 


5 Here f has ir-ma-a. 


6 Here f inserts a8-lu-la Sal-la-sun ab-bul. 


7 Restoration rendered certain by a and f. 


66 


48. 


49, 


50. 


ol. 


52. 


. ekal 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


OLE ee eee abann ard 


a-Se-pis-ma? 
li-z-tu da-na-nu sa Assur béli-ia u-Sa- 


as-tir 

elt zuk-te *¢Ni-pur a-Sar........4-+ 
ti ra ds 

ERAS yh (ite = Th. 4). the St-4a 
Assur tldni?® rabaite®?. 2... lik) 


kil-mu-sut lis-ki-[pu-su] 


48, 


49, 


dl. 


52. 


I pursued and [defeated them.] A 
memorial stela I caused to be made, 
and I had them inscribe (thereon) 
the might and power of Assur, my 
lord. 


. On the summit of Mt. Nipur where 


ey fe; a6) we Sa! ele leg wea tee Se er 


Nott =e, 2 ae eee (who destroys) 
the writing of my name 

may Assur and the great gods look 
upon him [in anger]* and destroy him. 


V. RECORDS WRITTEN AFTER THE SIXTH CAMPAIGN 


a) BULL INSCRIPTION FROM THE PALACE AT NINEVEH (F1). 


md Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba sarru rabi 
Sarru dan-nu Sar kigsati Sar ‘Assur Sar 
kib-rat irbittem(tim) alana?! 
rabite® ir-si it-pi-Su zi-ka-ru kar-du 
a-sa-rid kal mal-ki 


mi-gir 


. rab-bu la--it la ma-gi-rt mu-sab-ri-ku 


za-ma-a-ni *Assur ilu rab sarru-ut 
la sSa-na-an %-Sat-li-ma-an-ni-ma ela 
gi-mir a-sib  pa-rak-ki 
vkakké?'-1a 


u%-Sar-ba-a 


. ul-tu tamti (A.AB.BA) e-li-ni-ti 84 
Sul-mu “Samsi(s1) a-di tam-tim sap-li- 


ti Sd si-it 4Samsi(st) gim-ri ma-al-ke 
Sa kib-ra-a-ti U-Sak-nis Se-pu-u-a i-na 
mah-ri-v 


. gir-ri-ia §é4 "*Marduk-apla-iddina(na) 


Sar 'Kar-*dun-id-as a-di umméndt?! 
'Klamti®* ri-si-su i-na ta-mir-ti Kis 


il. 


Palace of Sennacherib, the great king, 
the mighty king, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria, king of the four 
quarters; favorite of the great gods; 
the wise and crafty one; strong hero, . 
first among all princes; 

the powerful one who consumes the 
insubmissive, who strikes the wicked 
with the thunderbolt: Assur, the 
great god, has entrusted to me an 
unrivalled kingship, and has made 
powerful my weapons above (all) 
those who dwell in palaces. 


. From the upper sea of the setting 


sun, to the lower sea of the rising 
sun, all princes of the four quarters 
(of the world) he has brought in sub- 
mission to my feet. In my first 

campaign, I accomplished the defeat 
of Merodach-baladan, king of Baby- 
lonia, together with the armies of 


1 Read, perhaps, instead of ma, [Si-nu-ti1; a and f had [ar]-di-Su-nu-ti-ma as-ta-kan tah-[ta-Sun). 


2f has an additional clause before this, and like a, ended the inscription somewhat differently. 


3a has & before this word. 
4a reads ag-gis li-ir-[ru-su]. 


5 Pl. sign omitted. 


6 Variant, curse him in anger. 


10. 


Bl: 


. aksud(ud)-ma 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


* 


as-ta-kan tahtd-Su su-t 
na-prs-ti-su e-dis 


a-na §t-zu-ub 


. tp-par-sid-ma “narkabdati?' “su-wm-bi 


sisé?! paré?! $4 ti-mas-Si-ru tk-su-da 
kata?-av ekalli-Su dé ki-rib 
Babila®* e-ru-um-ma ap-te-e-ma 


a-na 


. bit ni-sir-ti-Su hurdsa kaspa uv-nu-ti 


hurdsi kaspi abnu a-kar-tti busd 
makkira ekalli-Su as-lu-la aldni?'-su 
dan-nu-ti bit dtrdmi?! $d Kal-di a-di 


vs 


aldni?! sthrite?’ §4 li-mi-ti-Su-nu 
as-lu-la Sal-la-su-un 
i-na ta-ai-ar-ti-ia %A-ra-me sd sid-di 
"Idiglat "Purattt ak-sud(ud) as-lu-la 
§al-la-su-un i-na mi-ti-ik gir-ri-a 


. $4 ™ki-pi *Ha-ra-ra-ti: man-da-ta-su 


ka-bit-tu am-hur ba-hu-la-ti °Hi-rim- 
me *nakri ag-si i-na “kakké?! u-sam- 
kit-ma e-du ul e-zib ala st-a-tu a-na 
es-Su-tt 


. as-bat istén(en) alpa 10 immeré?? 


10 imér kardéna '20' wmér suluppa 
ri-se-ti-Su a-na ildni®’ 'AsSur** v-kin 
i-na Sané(e) gir-ri-ia a-na 'Kas-si-c w 
'Ta-su-bi-gal-la-ai lu al-lik ki-rib hur- 


v . 


Sa-a-NL 


ekil nam-ra-si i-na sisé ar-kab as-ru 
Sup-st-ku i-na sépa"-ia ri-ma-nigs at- 
tag-gis “Bit-"Ki-lam-za-ah °*Har-dis-pi 
eBit-Ku-bat-ti aldni?'-Su-nu — Ut 
dtirani®’ dan-nu-te 


akgud(ud)-ma_ as-lu-la_ Sal-la-su & 
aldni?'-Su-nu — sihriiti?’ Sd ni-ba la 
1-S-% ab-bul ak-kur bit séri: kul-ta-ri- 


1 


Lh. 


. the chariots, 


67 


Elam, his ally, in the plain of Kish. 
That one fled alone to save his life, 
and 

wagons, horses and 
mules which he abandoned, my hands 
captured. Into his palace in Babylon 
I entered and I opened 


. his treasure-house,—gold, silver, yes- 


sels of gold and silver, precious stones, 
property and goods of his palace I 
took as spoil. His strong, walled 
cities of Chaldea, together with the 
small cities of their environs, 


. I captured, I carried off their spoil. 


On my return the Aramaeans who 
lived along the banks of the Tigris and 
Euphrates, I conquered and carried 
off their spoil. 
campaign 


In the progress of my 


. I received the heavy tribute of the 


governor of Hararati. The men of 
Hirimme, wicked enemies, I cut down 
with the sword. Not one escaped. 
That city 


. Lrebuilt: one ox, 10 lambs, 10 homers 


of wine, 20 homers of dates, its choic- 
est, (as gifts) for the gods of Assyria, 
I appointed. 
paign, I went against the Kassites, 
and the Yasubigallai. In the midst 


of the mountains 
I rode on horseback where the terrain 


was difficult, and where it became 
too difficult (for this) I clambered up 
on foot like a wild-ox. Bit-Kilamzah, 
Hardishpi, Bit-Kubatti, their strong, 
walled cities, 

I captured, I carried off their spoil, 
and the small cities of their environs, 
which were numberless, I destroyed, 


In my second cam- 


68 


13. 


14. 


16. 


18. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Su-nu(?) tna girrt ak-mu %-tir-ma 
eBit--Ki-lam-za-ah su-a-tu 


a-na al bir-tu-ti as-bat nigé”! matdati ki- 
Sit-ti kata@"-ia 1-na lib-bi w-Se-sib i-na 
kata’ ¢bél pihdti *Arba-ha am-nu- 


_Su-nu-ti pa-an ni-ri-ia %-tir-ma a-na 


'Kl-li-pi 


as-sa-bat har-ra-nu el-la-mu-a ™Is-pa- 
ba-a-ra Sarru-su-un aldni?'-su dan-nu- 
ti v-mas-sir-ma a-na ru-ki-e-tt in-na- 
bit “Mar-t-bis-ti *Ak-ku-ud-du aldni?! 
bit Sarru-ti-su 

a-di alani®! sd li-mi-ti-Su-nu aksud- 
(ud)-ma_ as-lu-la Sal-la-su-un ab-bul 
ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu ‘Si-si-ir-té 
‘Ku-um-ma-ah-lum alani! dan-nu-ti 
a-di alan’ sihriiti”! 


. 8a li-mi-ti-su-nu aksud(ud) “Bit-"Ba- 


ar-ru-@ na-gu-% a-na gi-mir-ti-su ul-tu 
ki-rib) mati-Su ab-tuk-ma_ ela mi-sir 
a-ri?-di °Hl-en-za-as 


LA SSurk* a-na 


dan-na-at na-gi-e 


St-a-tu. as-bat Sum-su t-nak-kir-ma 
‘Kar-4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba at-ta-bi ni-bit- 
su nisé?! matats ki-sit-tt katd?-1a i-na 
lib-bi ti-Se-sib i-na katat bél prhate 
‘Har-har 


. am-nu i-na ta-ai-ar-ti-ia §é ‘Ma-da-ai 


ru-ku-ti $a Sarrani”! abé”'-ia la is-mu-% 
2i-kir mati-su-un man-da-ta-su-nu am- 
hur a-na ni-ri-ia %G-Sak-ni-su-nu-tt 


i-na Sal-si gir-ri-ia a-na 'Ha-at-ti lu 
al-ik ™Lu-li-t sar °Si-du-un-ni [pul- 


1 Var. lu. 


12. 


13. 


14, 


16. 


ys 


18. 


2 So text, but original probably had rad. 


I devastated. Their houses of the 
plain, (that is) tents, I burned with 
fire. I turned back, and that Bit- 
Kilamzah 

I made into a stronghold. People of 
the lands which my hand had seized, 
I settled therein, and placed them 
under (lit. counted them into the 
hand of) the governor of Arrapha. 
I turned the front of my yoke 

and took the road against the Ellipi. 
their king, forsook his 
strong cities, and fled to distant 
parts. Marubishti Akkuddu, 
his royal residence-cities, 

together with the cities of their 
environs, I captured, I carried off 
their spoil, I destroyed, I devastated, 
Sisirtu, Kum- 


Ispabara, 


and 


I burned with fire. 


‘mahlum, strong cities, together with 


the small cities 

of their environs, I captured. The 
district of Bit-Barrt in its totality I 
cut off from his land and added it to 
the territory of Assyria. Elenzash 
I turned into the stronghold of 
that, 
district. I changed its name, and 
called it Kar-Sennacherib. Peoples 
of the land which my hands had con- 
quered, I settled therein, and placed it 
under the governor of Harhar. 

On my return I received the gifts of 
the distant Medes, whose name the 
kings, my fathers had not heard, 
and I made them submit to my 
yoke. 

In my third campaign I went against 
the Hittite’ land, Luli, king of Sidon 


3 Syria. 


19. 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


luh-ti me-[lam-me-ia is-hup|-8t-ma 
ul-tu ki-rib “Sur-ri! a-na 'Ta-ad-na-na 
kabal tam-tim in-na-bit-ma_ saddd-su 
e-mid ™Tu-ba->-lu i-na “kusst Sarru-ti- 
Su u-se-8ib ~man-da-at-tu — be-lu-ti-ia 
u-kin si-ru-us-Su Sarradni?!’ (MAR- 
TU** ka-li-Su-un biltu ka-bit-ti 

i-na ta-mir-ti ‘U-si-% a-di mah-ri-ia 
a-bi-lu-ni wu ™Si-id-ka-a sar ¢Is-ka- 
al-lu-na §é la ik-nu-Su a-na ni-ri-ia 
ilani”’ bit-abi-su sa-a-s% a-di ki-im- 
ti-[sv] 


as-su-ha-am-ma a-na "A ssurk* G-ras-s% 
™Sarru-lu-dd-a-ri mar "Ru-kib-ti Sarra- 
Su-nu [mah-ru-t eli nisé|?’ ¢Is-ka-al- 
lu-na as-kun-ma man-da-at-tu  [bélu|- 
ti-ia U-kin si-ru-us-si 

i-na mi-ti-ik gir-ri-ia aladni?'-Su $d a-na 
sépat-ia la ik-nu-sti ak-su-da as-lu-la 
Sal-la-su-un “Sakkannaké?! uw nisé?? 
¢‘Am-kar-ru-na sé ”Pa-di-i Sarra-si-nu 


bél a-di-e Sé 'Assur** bi-ri-tu parzilla 
id-du-ma a-na "Ha-za-ki-a-% ‘La-t-da- 
at td-di-nu|-su] a-na an-zil-li e-sir-su 
ip-lah<libbay-su-nu Sarrani?! ‘Mu-su- 
rt sabé?! “kaste?! 


vnarkabdte?’ sisé?’ sd Sar 'Me-luh-ha 
e-mu-ki la. ni-bi ik-te-ru-ni i-na_ ta- 
mir-ti °Al-ta-ku-%& it-ti-Su-un am-da- 
his-ma_ as-ta-kan  tahtd-su-un @™bél 
vnarkabatr?! 

au maré”! sarri ‘Mu-su-ra-ai a-di %bél 
venarkabati! sé sar ‘Me-luh-ha bal-tu- 
su-un i-na ka-ti as-bat a-na *Am-kar- 


1So Smith-Sayce, III R has !A-mur-ri. 


19. 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


69 


—my terrifying splendor overcame 
him, and from Tyre he fled to Cyprus? 
in the midst of the sea, and died. 
Tuba’lu I placed on the royal throne, 
(and) imposed my kingly tribute upon 
him. The kings of Amurru, all of 
them, 

brought their heavy tribute before me 
in the neighborhood of Ushu, and 
Sidka, king of Ashkelon, who had not 
submitted to my yoke,—his father- 
house, himself, together with his 
family, 

I tore up and carried away to Assyria. 
Sharru-lu-dari, son of Rukibti, their 
former king, I placed over the people 
of Ashkelon, and imposed my royal 
tribute upon him. 

In the course of my campaign, his 
cities, which had not submitted at 
my feet, I captured, I carried off their 
spoil. The governors and people of 
Ekron, who had thrown into iron 
fetters Padi, their king, 

who was bound by oath to Assyria, 
and had given him to Hezekiah, the 
Jew,—he kept him in confinement, 
like an enemy,—they became afraid, 
and appealed to the Egyptian kings, 
the bow-men, 

the chariots and horses of the king of 
Meluhha, a countless host. In the 
plain of Eltekeh I fought with them, 
I defeated them. The charioteers 


and Egyptian princes, together with 
the charioteer of the king of Meluhha, 
I captured alive with my (own) hand. 


2 Yadnan, the isle(s) of the Danaoi. Cf. Zeitschrift fiir Assyriologie, XXVIII (1914), 92 f. 


70 


26. 


ai2 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


ves 


ru-na_ ak-rib-ma sakkannakké?! sa 
hi-it-tu ; 

u-Sab-su-t i-na “kakké?! a-duk mdr é?! 
ali e-pi§ an-ni a-na Sal-la-ti am-nu 
si-it-tu-ie-Su-nu [sé hi-ti'-ta-Su-un la 
1b-Su-t -us-Sur-Su-un  ak-bi ™Pa-di-i 
Sarra-Su-nu 

ul-tu. ki-rib ¢Ur-sa-li-im-ma_ %-Se-sa- 
am-ma i-na “kusst eli-su-un %-Se-sib- 
ma man-da-at-ti be-lu-ti-ca %-kin si-ru- 
us-Su $d ™Ha-za-ki-a-% 'Ta-t-da-ai la 
tk-nu-su 

a-na ni-ri-ia 46 aldni”'-su bit dirdni?! 
dan-nu-ti u alam?’ sa 
Sd ni-ba la 1-8i-% al-me aksud(ud) 
as-lu-la Sal-la-tis am-nu sa-si kima 


li-me-ti-Su-nu 


‘ssurky-up-pr ki-rib 

¢Ur-sa-li-am-ma al sarru-ti-su e-sir-st 
chal-su?! 
8a as-lu-la ul-tu ki-rib mati-su ab-tuk- 
ma a-na sarrdni?! *Az-du-di °Is-ka-al- 
lu-na 


eli-si t-rak-kis aldni?!-su 


c‘Am-kar-ru-na °Ha-zi-ti ad-din-su %- 
sa-ah-hir madt-su e-la biltt mah-ri-ti 
na-dan mati-su-un man-da-at-tt %-rad- 
di-ma u-kin si-ru-us-Su-un su-% ™Ha- 
za-ki-a-t pul-hi me-lam-me 


be-lu-ti-ia is-hu-pu-si-ma @Ur-bi wu 
ameabé?'-su damkiti?’ sé a-na ki-rib 
¢Ur-sa-li-am-ma al sarru-ti-su. %-Se-ri- 
bu-ma ir-su-t bat-la-a-ti it-ti 30 bildt 
hurdsa 800 bildt kaspa 

mimma sum-si ni-sir-ti ekalli-Su uv 
méardte?'-su ‘sinnisét?! ekalli-su *zam- 
amzammer ate?! ki-rib 
Ninuak* %-se-bi-lam-ma a-na na-dan 
man-da-at-ti 1s-pu-ra rak-bu-su 


mer 6”! a-na 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


I drew near to Ekron,—the gover- 
nors who had rebelled (committed sin) 
I slew with the sword. The citizens 
who had rebelled (sinned) I counted 
as spoil. The rest of them, who 
had not rebelled, I pardoned. Padi, 
their king, 

I brought out of Jerusalem and placed 
on the throne over them. My royal 
tribute I imposed upon him. As for 
Hezekiah, the Jew, who had not sub- 
mitted 

to my yoke, 46 of his strong, walled 
cities and the cities of their environs, 
which were numberless, I besieged, 
I captured, I plundered, as booty I 
counted. Him, like a caged bird in 
Jerusalem, his royal city, I shut up. 
Earth works I threw up about it. 
His cities which I plundered, I cut 
off from his land and gave to 


the kings of Ashdod, Ashkelon, 
Ekron and Gaza,—I diminished his 
land. To the former tribute, I 
imposed and laid upon him the giving 
up of his land as a gift. That 
Hezekiah,—the terrifying splendor 
of my royalty 

overcame him, and the Arabs and 
his picked troops whom he had 
brought into Jerusalem, his royal 
city, ran away. With 30 talents of 
gold, 800 talents of silver 

and all kinds of treasure from his 
palace, he sent his daughters, his 
palace women, his male and female 
singers, to Nineveh, and he dis- 
patched his messenger to pay the 
tribute. 


34. 


35. 


36. 


37. 


38. 


oo. 


40. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 71 


. i-na ribé(e) gir-ri-ia a-na 'Bit-La-kin 


lu al-li-ik i-na mi-ti-ik gir-ri-ia Sa 
™Su-zu-bt °Kal-da-a a-sib  ki-rib 
ra-gam-me i-na °Bi-it-tu-ti as-ta-kan 


tahtd-<Si> Si-t “kakké?'ia e-dtir-ma 
e-dis ip-par-sid ul in-na-mir a-sar-Su 
pa-an ni-ri-ia ti-tir a-na °Bit-"La-kin 
as-sa-bat har-ra-nu su-% 

4M arduk-apla-iddina(na) sd i-na 
a-lak gir-ri-ia = mabh-ri-e  as-ku-nu 
tahta-su ri-gim “kakké?'-1a dan-nu- 
ti?! e-dir-ma a-na *Na-gi-1-ti sé kabal 
tam-tim in-na-bit 

ahé?'-Su zér bit-abi-su sa t-mas-si-ru 
a-hi tam-tim si-it-ti nisé?! mati-su ul-tu 
bit-"La-kin ki-rib "a-gam-me u ap-pa- 
ra-a-ti as-lu-la u-tir-ma alani?'-su 


ab-bul i-na girrt ak-mu i-na ta-ai-ar- 
ti-ia ™ASSur-na-din-sum méar-t-a i-na 
’kusst be-lu-ti-Su v-se-sib-ma t-sad-gi- 
la pa-nu-us-su i-na hansé gir-ri-va 


amelite?’ °Tu-mur-ra-a sa kima kin-ni 
nasri si-ir guk-ti %4Ni-pur sadi(2) 
mar-st Sti-bat-su-un sit-ku-na-at-ma la 
kit-nu-Si a-na ni-ri-ia i-na sép™ 
Sad N1-pnur ka-ra-st 


u-Sa-as-kin-ma_ it-ti sabé?' tahdzi-1a 
la ga-me-lu-ti a-na-ku kima rime tk-de 
pa-nu-us-su-un as-bat hur-ri na-hal- 
li-e Sadé”! mar-su-ti i-na “kusst as-ta- 
am-di-th 

a-sar a-na 
Sépat’-1a as-tah-hi-id kima ar-me a-sar 


vkusst Sup-si-ku i-na 


393. 


4. 


35. 


36. 


Oo”. 


38. 


39. 


40. 


In my fourth campaign [ went against 
Bit-Yakin. In the course of my 
campaign, I defeated Shuzubu, the 
Chaldean, who dwelt in the midst of 
the marshes, at Bittutu. 

That one feared my weapons, fled 
alone, and his (hiding) place has not 
been found (seen). The front of my 
yoke I turned, and took the road to 
Bit-Yakin. That 
Merodach-baladan, whom I had de- 
feated in my first campaign, became 
afraid at the tumult of my mighty 
arms, and fled to Nagitu which is in 
the midst of the sea (Persian Gulf). 
His brothers, the seed of his father- 
house, whom he abandoned by the 
sea-shore, the rest of the people of his 
land, I carried off as spoil from Bit- 
Yakin, out of the marshes and 
swamps. I turned about and 
destroyed his cities, I burned them 
with fire. On my return, I placed 
my son Assur-nddin-shum on_ his 
royal throne, and made (the land) 
submit to him. In my fifth cam- 
paign, the 

people of Tumur, whose abodes are 
situated on the peaks of Mt. Nipur, 
a difficult mountain, like the nests 
of the eagle, and who had not sub- 
mitted to my yoke:—at the foot of 
Mt. Nipur 

I pitched my camp. With my relent- 
less warriors, I, like a strong wild-ox, 
led the way. Gullies and difficult 
mountain torrents I surmounted in 
my (sedan-)chair. 

Where it was too steep for my chair, 
I advanced on foot, like a young 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44, 


46. 


47. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


bir-ka-ai ir-ma-a i-Sa-a ma-na-ah-tt 
si-ir aban Sadi (2) %-sib-ma mé?! kn q- 
a-di 


ka-su-ti a-na su-me-ia lu as-tt i-na 
ubadndt”’ hur-sa-a-ni ar-di-Su-nu-ti-ma 
as-ta-kan tah-ta-su-un  aldni?'-Su-nu 
aksud(ud)-ma as-lu-la sal-la-su-un 


ab-bul ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu pa-an 


ni-ri-ia wt-tir-ma_ si-ir ”™Ma-ni-ia-e 
Sar ‘Uk-ki la kan-se as-sa-bat har-ra-nu 


ur-hi pa-as-ku-ti Sa la-pa-an sadé”! 


mar-su-lt ki-rib-Su-un ma-nam-ma la- 
pa-an ni-ri i-li-ku Sarru pa-ni mah- 
ri-ia i-na sépt 4A-na-ra u *4Up-pa 
sadé”' dan-nu-tt ka-ra-si u-Sa-as-kin- 
ma 

at-tt 
amsdbér! tahdzi-ia mar-si-is 1-te-el-la-a 


a-na-ku. i-na “kusst ni-me-di 


ubandl”’ sadé?’ pa-as-ka-a-ti 


. &u-t ™Ma-ni-ia-e a-lak gi-ir-ri-ia 1s- 


me-ma °‘Uk-ku al sarru-ti-su e-zib-ma 
a-na ru-ki-ti in-na-bit e-ru-um-ma 


a-na ki-rib ekalli-su mimma sum-su 
busi makkiru la ni-ba as-lu-la ni-sir- 
ta-Su ka-bit-ti aldni”'-su ab-bul ak-kur 
i-na girrt ak-mu-ma 


ki-ma til a-bu-bi as-pu-un'! 


1 So Smith-Sayce. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44. 


45. 


46. 


47. 


gazelle. Where my knees gave out 
and found a resting-place, I sat down 
upon (some) mountain boulder and 
drank 

cold water from the water-skin (to 
quench) my thirst. 
of the mountains I pursued them, 
and brought about their overthrow. 
Their cities I captured and I carried 
off their spoil, 

I destroyed, I devastated, I burned 
(them) with fire. I turned the front 
of my yoke. Against Maniae, king 
of Ukku, who was not submissive, 
I took the road. 
blazed trails and wearisome paths 
which stretch along these rugged 
mountains, 


To the summits 


Among the un- 


none of the kings who went before me, 
had traveled before the yoke. At the 
foot of Mt. Anara and Mt. Uppa, 
mighty mountains, I had my camp 
pitched, and 

I, on a house-chair, together with my 
warriors, with difficulty climbed to 
the summits of the wearisome moun- 
tains. 

That Maniae heard of the approach 
of my army (lit. campaign), left 
Ukku, his royal city and fled to dis- 
tant parts. I entered 

into his palace. All kinds of property 
and goods, without number, I carried 
off,—heavy treasure was his. His 
cities I destroyed, I devastated, I 
burned with fire, 

and I overwhelmed them (so that 
they) were like a tell (left by) the 
deluge. 


48, 
49, 
. aldniv! §d sar 'E-lam-ti Sd i-na 


51. 


52. 


53. 


54. 


55 


56. 


57. 


8. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 


65. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


Y°VVA bo 


i-na Sissé gir-ri-ia a-na 
°Na-gi-ti “Na-gi-li-di---bi-na 


e-bir-tan "Mar-ra-ti sit-ku-na-at 


Su-bat-su-un Sd |nisé|P’ “Bit--La-kin 
la-pa-an 

vkakki *AsSur dan-nu-tt is-hu-pu-ma 
z-21-bu 
da-ad-me-su-un 
ru-u-ma 
eee 
Subat| ni-ih-tt 
44 SSur be-li v-tak-kil-an-ni-ma_ si-ru- 


"Mar-ra-tum — 7i-bi- 


kir-bi-Su-un — tr-te-mu 


US-SU-UN A-NA 

'Na-gi-ti a-la-ku ak-bi ameliti(tr)?! 
'Ha-at-ti hu-bu-ut 
~kasti-ia i-na Ninuak' 
~elippdate”! si-ra-a-tt 
e-pis-ti méati-su-un ib-nu-t  nak-lis 
ammalahhé?’ “Sur-ra-at 


t-Se-Sib-ma 


‘S7-du-un-na-at ‘'La-ad-na-na-ai—ki- 
Sit-ti katat’-1a u-sa-hi-su-nu-te 
ur-tum ki-rib "I'diglat it-ti-si-na-ti a-na 


kid'-da-ti a-di °‘U-pi-a 


ti-se-kil-pu-t "na)-ba-lif ultu ¢U-pi-a 
na-ba-lig %-Se-lu-si-na-ti-ma 

si-ir “gam-gu-gi a-[na’A|-rah-[tr] il-du- 
du-si-na-ti._ ki-rib "A-rah-ti 

id-du( ?)-si-na-ti [a-na "Har-ri Bit- 
Dak(?)-ku(?)-rt §é 'Kal-di %-se-kil- 
pu-u 


EUS, ee Od al Lt a aE ie vkakkér'- 
ta Sam-ru-tt 
1Or Sid? 2 Syrians. 


48. 
49. 
50. 


ol. 


5d. 


56. 


57. 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 


73 


In my sixth campaign, against 
Nagitu (and) Nagitu-di’bina, 

cities belonging to the king of Elam, 
which 

are situated (lit. whose abode is 
situated) on the other side the Bitter- 
Sea (Persian Gulf), 


. whither the people of Bit-Yakin had 


scattered before 


. the mighty weapons - of Assur,— 


leaving 


. their towns, and crossing over the 


Bitter-Sea, 

they had settled down peacefully 
therein: 

Assur, my lord, 
against them 

I ordered the 
Hittite-people,? plunder of my bow, 
I settled in Nineveh. Mighty 


strengthened me, 


march to Nagitu. 


ships (after) the workmanship of 
their land, they built dexterously. 
Tyrian, 

Sidonian and Cyprian sailors, captives 
of my hand,-I ordered 

(to descend) the Tigris with them and 
come to land at the wharves(?) at 
Opis. 

From Opis (where) they drew them 
up on land, 

they dragged them on sledges(?) [to 
the Arahtu-canal( ?)]. 

They launched (lit. threw) them on 
the Arahtu-canal. To the channel of 


Bit-Dakkuri(?) of Chaldea I had 
them descend. 
si DGLOW (1 yar linea: Orta (a city), the 


bearers of my terrible weapons, 


74 


66. 


67. 


68. 


69. 


71. 


72. 


73. 


74, 


75. 


(ee 


78. 


12: 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Sa la i-du-t% a-di-ru *™mutir pu-tu?! 
Sépat-ia git-ma-lu-ti “sabé?' ta-ha-zi- 
1a 

kar-du-ti sd la i-na_ ka-rib 
velippati?’ u-Sar-kib-su-nu-ti-ma 
si-di-tu ad-ka it-ti Se-im uw *tibnuce! 
a-na mu-ur-ni-is-ki_ %-se-la-a 


it-ti-Su-un ku-ra-du-t-a i-na“ellip pate?! 
1-kil-pu-w" Pu-rat-tu a-na-ku 


. a-na i-ti-Su-un na-ba-lu sab-ta-ku-ma 


a-na °Bab-sa-li-me-ti a-sar-da-a ur-hi 
i-na ul-lu-t% ri-s-ia ul-tu a-hi "Pu- 
rat-ti a-di kib-ri tam-tim ma-lak 2 biru 
kak-ka-ru 


t-na a-a-ri-du-t 
. Sal-la-at-ma 


ka-lt ka-lu-w.... 
a-l1k pa=) 1 es 


e-du-t 
§d tam-tim a-di... %-ma a-na-ku 
a-mat ki-bi-ti-Su ul a-[sur.... ] 


as( ?)-du-ud 

i-na as-ri St-a-tum at-ta-di ka-ra-si 
e-du-t ta-ma-ti gab-[sis 7s]-sa-am- 
ma ki-rib 

»za-ra-ti-ia e-ru-um-ma ni-ti-1g l-ma-a 
kima ina ka-ra-si-ia i-na “elippati?' 
dan-nu-tt 


. d time & musi ki-ma ku-wp-pi-e Sur- 


bu-sa gi-mir ba-hu-la-ti-ia “elippate?! 
ku-ra-di-ia 

a-na rak-ka-at pi-t nari tk-si-da a-sar 
"Pu-rat-tu mé?'-Sa u-Sses-Se-ru 


kir-bu-us tam-tim ga-lit-ti a-na-ku a-na 
mi-hi-ir-ti-su-un i-na kisdd "Mar-ra-ti 


as-bat-ma a-na ¢H-a Sar apsi t-se-pi-sa 
nikeéer’ ellati?' it-tc “elip hurdst nun 
hurasi 


66. 


67. 


68. 


69. 


70. 


“1, 


72. 


73. 


74, 


75. 


76. 


de 


78. 


70. 


who know no fear, my picked foot- 
soldiers, my brave warriors, 


who know no rest(?), I embarked 
them in the ships, and 

provided supplies for the journey, 
together with grain and straw for the 
horses, which I embarked with 
them. My warriors went down the 
Euphrates on the ships while I 

kept to the dry land at their side. 
I had (them) proceed to Bab-salimeti. 
At the lifting of my head, from the 
bank of the Euphrates, to the shore of 
the sea, a journey of two double- 
hours, by land, 

all finished (7) [safely|. = ye. 
SLU e Ge And the waves 

Of the; sea. ei0see weer And I, the 
word of his command did not heed. 


In that place I pitched my camp. 
The mighty waves of the sea came 
up and 

entered my tent. And they com- 
pletely surrounded me while in my 
camp, causing all of my men 

to camp in the mighty ships as in 
cages for five days and nights. The 
ships of my warriors 

reached the swamps at the mouth 
of the river, where the Euphrates 
empties (lit. carries) its waters 

into the fearful sea. I met them on 
the shore of the Bitter-Sea (the 
Persian Gulf). 

To Ea, king of the deep, I offered pure 
sacrifices, and with a ship of gold, 


80. 


81. 


82. 


83. 


84. 


85. 
86. 
Si. 
88. 
89. 
90. 
wa 
92. 
93. 


94. 


96. 


OF: 


98. 


99. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


al-lut-tu. hurdsi a-na_ ki-rib tam-tim 
ad-di-ma “elippdte?'ia a-na eli “Na- 
gi-i-te 

ur-ru-hi-i§ %-Se-bir i-na kib-ri tam-tim 
gal-la-ti §é a-na si-tk-nu a-na e-li-e 


sisé?! w Sit-kun sépi améli la na-tu 
dannis Sum-ru-us-ma ba-hu-la-ti ‘Kal- 
di 

a-sib ¢°Na-gi-ti ‘*Na-gi-ti-di-?-bi-na 
nisé?! 'Hi-il-mu °Bil-la-tu 

a 'Hu-pa-pa-nu “elippate?’ ku-ra-di-ia 
i-mu-ru-ma sadbér! “kasti “su-um-be 


sisé?! paré”! e-muk la ni-bi t-kap-pi-tu 
mit-ha-ris 

el-la-me-su-un 1-na 

'U-la-a na-a-ru 84. kib-ru-sa 

tabu si-id-ru sit-ku-nu 


me-li-e ummandat??'-ia_sab-tu-ma 


u-Sa->-lu “kakké?'-Su-un 

ku-ra-du-t-a a-na ka-a-ri 

ma-kal-li-e 1k-si-du_ $i-ru-us-sti-un 
ul-tu. ki-rib “elippdte?’ a-na_ kib-ri 
a-ri-bis 
Up-par-Su-ma 
‘Na-gi-tu 


is-ku-nu_— tah-ta-Su-un 


. ‘Na-gi-tu-di--bi-na 'Hi-il-mu 'Bil-la- 


tu 

u 'Hu-pa-pa-nu alan?! sé sar 'E-lam- 
ti tk-su-du 

dan-nu-su-un te-ne-sit *"Kal-di wane?! 
gim-rt_ 'Bit-"La-kin 

a-di makkiri-su-nu vw nisé?! H-la-me-1 
“su-um-bi 

paré?' imérér! 
velippate?'-[su-nu] 


aS-lu-lu-ni —ki-rib 


15 


80. I cast into the sea a golden fish and 


81. 


82. 


83. 


84. 


85. 
86. 
87. 
88. 
89. 
20: 
al 
92. 
93. 
94. 
95. 
96. 
SIE 


98. 


ou. 


a golden aluttu. My ships 

I speedily brought over to Nagitu. 
On the shore of the fearful sea, which 
for landing and loading 

horses, and for men to walk upon, was 
unsuitable, (indeed) exceedingly 
wearisome, the people of Chaldea, 
who lived at Nagitu and Nagitu-di’- 
bina, the people of Hilmu, Billatu 
and Hupapanu, saw the ships of my 
warriors and they gathered together 
bowmen, wagons, 

horses, mules, a countless host, 


against them. By 

the Ulai, a river whose bank 

was good, the battle line was drawn 
up. 

Seizing the place where my armies 
were to land (lit. the landing place 
of my armies), 

they offered battle. 

My warriors gained the 

banks of the levees, against them 
they swarmed from the ships to the 
shore, like locusts, and 

established their overthrow. 


Nagitu, Nagitu-di’bina,  Hilmu, 
Billatu, 
and Hupapanu, cities belonging to 


the king of Elam, they captured. 
Their garrisons, men of Chaldea, all 
the gods of Bit-Yakin, 

together with their goods, and the 
Elamites, and wagons, 

mules and asses, they carried off as 
spoil, loaded them on their ships 


76 


100. 


101. 


103. 


104. 


106. 


Leb. 


10. 


iis 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


u-se-lu-ma a-ha-an-na-a a-na °Béab- 
sa-li-me-ti a-di mah-ri-ia 
u-se-bi-ru-ni alani”! sa-tu-nu 1b-bu-lu 
tk-ku-ru i-na girrt tk-mu-t 


. eli 'Hlamti®* rapastim(tim) it-bu-ku 


Sa-ah-ra-ar-tu% i-na Ssal-lat métati?! 
Sree 


30,500 “kasti 80,500 “a-ri-ti t-na 
lib-bi-Su-nu ak-sur-ma ela ki-sir 
Sarru-ti-ia U-rad-di it-ti Sal-lat na-ki- 
rt ka-bit-ti a-na gi-[mir] 


. kards-ia ™bél pihdte?'-ia wu nisér! 


ma-ha-za-ni-ia?! , Pl kima 
$i-e-nt 
lu w-za->-12z 

b) OTHER BULL 
Ekal ™4Sin-ahé?'-ertba! sarru rabii 
Sarru dan-nu sar kissati Sar 'Assur** 
Sar kib-rat irbittem(tim) mi-gir lana?! 
rabite?! 4A SSur abu (v. a-bu) tldni?! ina 
kul-lat ma-li-ki_ ki-nigs tppalsa-ni?-ma 
eli gi-mir a-sib pa-rak-ki u-Ssar-ba-a 
vkakké?'-ca 


. i-na ta-ha-az séri [ina ta-mir-ti Kis**|8 


as-kip 


. ™4Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sar 'Kar- 


dun-id-as 


. e-ki-ma be-lut-su gim-ri “Kal-di* a-di 


gi-bis 

um-ma-na-a-ti °"Elamti** (v, E-la- 
me-e) Ti-si-s% %-ra-sib 

ina Vkakkér!’ ™Assur-na-din-sumu 


maru-ti-a> ris-tu-t [tar-bit bir-ki-ia}8 


1 }2, eri-ba. 2 E2, an-ni. 


3So E2. 


100. 


101. 


102. 


103. 


104. 


and brought them over to Bab- 
salimeti, into my presence. 

Those cities they destroyed, devas- 
tated and burned with fire. 

Over the wide land of Elam they 
poured out terror. From the booty 
of the lands which (I had con- 
quered), 

30,500 bows, 30,500 arrows, I selected 
from among them, and added 

to my royal equipment. From the 
great spoil of enemy-(captives), I 
apportioned (men) like sheep 


105-6. to all of my camp, my governors, 


10. 


Le 


and the people of my large cities. 


INSCRIPTIONS (F2) 
Iso: 


Palace of Sennacherib, the great 
king, the mighty king, king of the 
universe, king of Assyria, king of the 
four quarters (of the world), favorite 
of the great gods (am I). Assur, 
father of the gods, has looked upon 
me among all princes with favor, and 
above all those who dwell in palaces, 
has made powerful my weapons. 


. In open battle (in the plain of Kish), 


I overthrew 


. Merodach-baladan, king of Baby- 


lonia, 


. I deprived him of his kingdom (lit. 


rulership). All of the Chaldeans, 
together with the numerous 

hosts of Elamites, his allies, I cut 
down 

with the sword. Assur-nadin-shum, 
my first-born son, (the offspring of 
my loins) 


4E2, mat oKal-di. 5 E2, om. w-a. 


12. 


13. 


14, 


16. 


Lis 


18. 


19; 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY py 


i-na “kusst Sarru-ti-s% %-Se-sib-ma 


‘Akkadu™ rapastum(tum) %-Sad-gil 


pa-nu-us-su as-suh na-gab %”Ah-la- 
me-el "Su-ti-t 
ba-hu-la-ti *Hi-rim-me i-na “kakki 
a-sam-kit-ma 


. la tz-gi-ba pi-ri--Su-un ak-sud(ud) 


am? Ta-su-bi-gal-la-ar 
amakris ag-si 'EHl-li-pt u-sal-pit-ma 
u-ab-bit da-dd-me-sa 


u ™Lu-li-i sar “Si-du-un-ni e-du-ra 


ta-ha-zt a-na 'Ta-ad-na-na 


8a ki-rib tam-tim in-na-bit-ma i-hu-uz 
mar-ki-tum4 i-na mat-tim-ma su>-a-tu 
i-na_ ra-Sub-bat “kak ¢ASSur béli-ia 
e-mid Sad-da-su ™T'u-ba->-lu i-na “kusst 
Sarru-ti-Su t%-Se-sib-ma_ man-da-at®- tu 
be-lu-ti-ia ui-kin si-ru-us-si %-Ssal-pit 


rap-si na-gu-t 'La-ti-di Sip-su be-ru 
™Ha-za-ki-ai-a Ssarra-s% %-sak-nis 


Se-pu-ti-a" nisé?’ ¢Tu-mur-ra-at_ a-si- 
bu-ut *4Ni-pur sadi(z) 
vkakke 

u-sam-kit ‘Uk-ku a-di nap-har da-dd- 
me-Su ki-ma til a-bu-bi t-ab-bit 


mar-st ina 


nisé?! 'Hi-lak-ki a-si-bu-ut hur-sa-ni 
zak-ru-ti t-tib-bi-th az-li-is °Til-ga- 
rum-me 

Sd pa-a-tt 'Ta-ba-li 
u-se-me kar-mes ba-hu-la-a-ti ‘Kal-di 


aksud(ud)-ma 


1E2, 4. 
2 2, l am, 
32, wnak-ri. 


4H2, tu. 
5 K2, sa. 
6 2, om. 


iA 


13. 


14, 


15. 


16. 


he 


18. 


1S 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


there sought a refuge. 


I placed on the royal throne and made 
the wide land of Akkad (Babylonia) 
submit to him. 

I uprooted all the Ahlamu and Sutu 
(Aramaean tribes). 

The men of Hirimme I cut down with 
the sword, and 

no offspring of theirs escaped. I con- 
quered the Yasubigallai, 

treacherous enemies, overthrew the 
Ellipi and destroyed their towns. 
And Luli, king of Sidon, was afraid 
to fight me (lit. feared my battle) 
and fled to Cyprus, 

which is in the midst of the sea, and 
In that land, 
in terror of the weapons of Assur, 
my lord, he died. Tuba’lu I placed on 
the throne of his kingdom, and im- 
posed upon him my royal tribute. I 
devastated 

the wide district of Judah, the strong, 
proud Hezekiah, its king, I brought in 
submission 
to my feet. 
who dwell on Mt. Nipur, a steep 
mountain, 


The people of Tumur, 


I cut down with the sword. Ukku, 
together with all of its towns, I 
destroyed (so that they were) like a 
ruin (left) by a deluge. 

The people of Hilakku, who dwell in 
the high mountains, I slaughtered 
like wild animals. ‘Til-garimmu, 
which is on the border of Tabal, I 
conquered, I turned 


The men of Chaldea 


into a ruin. 


7E2 puts this word before usaknis. 


78 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


o2. 


. ™4Sin-ahé?'-errba 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Sa ti-ib ta-ha-zi-ia e-du-ru-ma wldni?! 
nap-har méati-si-un i-na Sub-ti-su-un 


id-ku-% tam-tim i-bi-ru-ma i-na ‘Na- 
gi-a-ti id-du-% su-bat-sun 

i-na “elippdate?’ 'Ha-at-ti arki-su-un 
e-bir “Na-gi-a-tu 
¢Na-gi-a-tu-di---bi-na 'Hi-il-mu 'Bil- 
la-tu 

u 'Hu-pa-pa-nu na-gi-e Sd e-bir-tan 
"Mar-ra-ti ak-Sud(ud)-ma 


te-ni-sit ‘Kal-di a-di tldmi-su-nu nisé?! 
sar 'Elamti** 


as-lu-lam-ma la vz-21-ba mul-tah-tu 


VI. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


20 


30. 


ol. 


32 


who feared the onset of my battle 
and, gathering the gods of their whole 
land from their shrines, 
crossed the sea, and 
Nagitu. 

I crossed over after them in Hittite 
(Syrian) ships. Nagitu, 
Nagitu-di’bina, Hilmu, Billatu_ 


settled in 


and Hupapanu, the province which 
is on the other side the Bitter-Sea, 
I conquered. 

And the people of Chaldea, together 
with their gods, the people of the 
king of Elam, 

. I carried off. Not a sinner escaped. 


RECORDS WRITTEN AFTER THE EIGHTH CAMPAIGN! 


a) THE BAVIAN INSCRIPTIONS (H 3) 


. CA ssur 4*A-nu-um 4Hn-lil 4*H-a 4Sin 


dSamags 4Adad ‘4¢Marduk 4Nabia 
"Nuskul] Us-tar “Sibi(bi) alana?! 
rabtte?! 


. &é ina (v.7-na) gi-mir ad-na-a-tt a-na 


'¢1-tar-ri-e sal-mat kakkadi e-nu i-na- 
as-st-% i-nam-bu-u mal-ku 

sarru. rabbi sarru 
dan-nu sar kissati sar ‘Assur Sar kib- 
rat <irbittim(tim) rubt za-nin-su-un 
i-na an-ni-su (text, ku)-nu ki-nim 


. ul-tu tam-tim e-lit a-di tam-tim sap-lit 


'Sal'-mes lu at-ta-lak-ma mal (v. ma-al)- 
ki Sad kib-rat (v. ra-a-ti) Se-pu-u-a t- 
Sak-nis-ma 


1 For the standard inscription see chapter iv. 


1 


. Assur, Anu, Enlil, Ea, Sin, Shamash, 


Adad, Marduk, Naba, Nusku, Ishtar, 
Sibi, the great gods, 


. who in all lands give attention (lit. 


raise the eye) to the rule of the black- 
headed race of men, (who) named 
(me) ruler: 


. Sennacherib, the great king, the 


mighty king, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria, king of the four 
quarters (of the world), the prince 
who endows (their cults): in their 
enduring grace, 


. from the upper sea to the lower sea, 


I have marched in safety, and the 
princes of the four quarters (of the 
world) I have brought in submission 
to my feet, 


10. 


El: 


12. 


13. 


14. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


. 1-Si-tu ap-Sa-a-ni i-na_ %-me-sti-ma 


&d Ninua®: sui-bat-su dannig§ us-rab-bi 
diira-su w Sal-hu-su &4 ina mah-ri-e 


gee pie a 


. la tb-Su es-St8 %-Se-pis-ma_ t-zak-kir 


hur-Sa-mis ta-me-ra-tu-su Sad i-na la 
ma-mi na-mu-ta si-lu-ka-ma 


. Sa-ta-a-ki-e it-tu-ti wu nisé?'-su méP! 


Si-ki la i-da-a-ma a-na zu-un-ni ti-ck 
Samé(e) tur-ru-sa éndt’-sun 


. as-ku-ma ul-tu libbt ¢*Ma-si-tt *Ban- 


ba-kab-na = *Sa-ap-pa-ri-Sus °Kar- 
™Samas-ndsir(ir) ‘*Kar-nu-ti-ri ¢Ri- 
mu-sa 


. ‘Ha-ta-a “Da-la-ai-in *Ri-es-e-ni “Su-lu 


‘Dir-* [Istar] ¢Si-ba-ni-ba °Is-pa( ?)- 
ri-tr-1a 

(i-in-gi-li-nis “Nam-pa-ga-a-te (v. tt) 
eTillu ¢A-lum-su-st mé?! Sd si-cr *Ha- 
da-bi-ti XVIII nérati?! 
a-na libbi 

"Hu-su-ur (v. rt) t-se-sir ma-lak-sun 
ul-tu. pa-a-ti a-di [labbz| 
Ninuak *hi-ri-th ti-Sah-ra-a mé?! su- 
nu-te 


u-Sah-ra-a 


¢K4-si-rt 


u-Sar-da-a ki-rib-sa pat-te ™4Sin-ahée?'- 
eriba at-ta-bit ni-bit-su-[ma] gu-bu-us 
mé?? §a-tu-nu ul-tu libbi *4Ta-as 


Sadi(t) mar-si Sd i-te-e Akkadt** t-se-si 
pa-na-[ma] ndru sti-a-tti nar |... .] 
i-nam-bu-u Sum-su e-nin-na a-[na-|ku 
ina (v. i-na) ke-bit 

44 Sur béli rabé(e) béli-1a mé?! wm-na 
u Su-me-li Sadi(i) Sd 1-ta-tu-us-su 


1 Conjectural reading. 


5. 


10. 


1 be 


12. 


13. 


14. 


79 


At that 
time I greatly enlarged the site (lit. 
abode) of Nineveh. Its wall, and 
the outer-wall thereof, which had not 


so that they drew my yoke. 


. existed before, I built anew, and 


mountain-high. Its fields, 
which through lack of water had 
fallen into neglect (lit. ruin), and 


raised 


. came to look like pitch(?), so that 


its people did not have (lit. know) 
any water for watering, but turned 
their eyes heaven-ward for showers 
of rain,—(these fields) 


. I watered, and from the villages of 


Masiti, Banbakabna, Shapparishu, 
Kar-Shamash-nasir, Kar-niri, Ri- 
musa, 


. Haté, Dalain, Résh-éni, Sulu, Dur|- 


Ishtar], Shibaniba, Isparirra, 


Gingilinish, Nampagate, Tillu, Alum- 
susi, the waters which were above the 
town of Hadabiti, (through) eighteen 
canals which I dug, 

I brought (lit. directed their course) 
into the Khosr River. From the 
border of the town of Kisiri to the 
midst of Nineveh, I dug a canal, and 
brought down 

those waters therein. Sennacherib- 
Channel, I called its name. And 
the surplus of those waters I led out 
through the midst of Mt. Tas, 

a difficult mountain, on the border 
of Akkad.? Formerly they called that 


canal. ae Now, I, at the com- 
mand of 
Assur, the great lord, my lord 


directed into it (the canal mentioned) 


2Or Urartu, Armenia? 


80 


15. 


16. 


ive 


18. 


19. 


20. 


23. 


. mu-bil 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


= 869M ela 
¢Bi-it-ur-ra 
alani?'(ni) §aé li-me-ti-su eli-su us-rad- 


.. | Ku-uk-[kut 2] 


di i-na abné?! nari |Su-a-te 
md Sin-ahé?'-eriba az-ku-ra 


ni-bit-su elt mé?! ku-up-pi u mér! 
mah-ru-ti sd ah-lru-u 


a-\se-sir [ma-|lak-su-un 


a-na Ninua™ ma-ha-zu si-i-ru sti-bat 
Sarru-ti-ia<sd> ul-tu [ul-la Sarrdni abé- 
ia| su-bat-su la t-sar-bu-u 


la t-nak}-ki-lu nik}-lal-as|-su e-ne-na 
a-na-ku ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar 'Assur** 


a-sa-rid_ kal mal-ki sd ul-tu — st-tt 
4Samsi (st) 
a-di e-rib “Samsi(s) .... . mér! 


pat-ta-a-li sé v-Sah-ru-t Ninua* a-na 
li-me-ti-su “kiré?! “kardneé?! 


gi-mir .... be-lat hur-Sa-a-ni ka- 
li-Su-un intb ad-na-a-ti 
1. k0-10|=710| a eee eae laz|-kup 


a-di mé”! la i-kas-sa-du a-na su-ma- 
me-ti ti-mas-sir-ma am-ba-su 
is, wees Sa gi-mir sip-pa-a- 
ti ina e-ri-bi e-ri-si-ti e-li-enCalidu 
Saplanu! istu libbi ¢T'ar-bi-si 


a-di ali Sa “"Ninuai(?) mé(me) a-na 
mi-ris Se-am uu Samassammu %t-sam- 
ka-ra Sat-ti-[Sam-ma] ... lu... [i]- 
na sarrani?'(nt) 


‘ Conjectural reading. 


15. 


16. 


17. 


ee 


ihe ® 


20. 


21 


. damaged (by drought) .. . 


the waters from the right and left of 
the mountain 

in whose sides are the... . of 
Me—, Kuk—(and) Biturra, towns 
of the neighborhood: with stone I 
walled that canal, and called its 
name Sennacherib-[Channel]. 

In addition to the waters from 
springs, and the waters which [I had 
earlier secured] by digging (canals), 
Pao oles es I directed their course 

to Nineveh, the great metropolis, my 
royal abode, whose site since days of 
old, the kings my fathers, had not 
enlarged, 

and whose adornment they had not 
undertaken, At this time, I, Sen- 
nacherib, king of Assyria, first among 
all princes, who from the rising sun 
to the setting sun, (with) 
waters from the canals which I had 
caused to be dug [supplied] Nineveh, 
together with its neighborhood. 
Gardens, vineyards, 

all kinds of .... products of all 
the mountains, the fruits of all lands, 
5 Nhs ae I planted(?), setting free 
the waters where they did not reach 
the thirsty (field), [and reviving] its 
vegetation, 


. of all 
the orchards, at the entrance . . 
above (the city) and below( ?) 
from the midst of the town of 
Tarbisi 


. to Nineveh, providing for all time, 


water for the planting of corn and 
sesame among the kings 


24. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 8] 


maré?'-ia §dé it-ti Wb-bt us-lam-mu-ma 
i-na ka-a-pi la tur-ru a-ki-7 ina libbi 
ameabéP! an-nu-ti e-su-ti 


. ndru st-a-tu %-Sah-ri ni-is 4ASSur 


raph... libbi 
amsdbé?! an-nu-ti ndru st-a-tu la u-sah- 
ru-u (v. la ah-ru-w) 

vu ina satti 3 arhi la G-kat-tu-% si-pir-sa 


ili-ia . Sum-ma tna 


ig-gam-ru-t %-kat-tu-— hi- 


a-na pa-te-e nari Sti-a-tu “asxipu(MAS- 
MAS) kala(US-KU) 


U-Ma-2-1r 


ie UE aa ee abnusandyu %rukntt 
eS nisgur ie hula © er UD- 
AS?! 


abné?! ni-sik-ti BAL-GI'* SUHUR"™ 
tam-Sil bi. . . hurdst rikké?’ Samna 
taba a-na 7H-a bél nak-bi kup-pi 

wu ta-mir-te *HN-BI-LU-LU  gugal 
naré?'? bélé(e) nappalti-[ia] ui-ka-ai-1s 
ki-Sa-a-ti a-na ildni?’ rabtiter’ ut- 
nin-Ma 

su-up-pi-ta is-mu-ma %-Se-Si-ru li-pit 
kdtat-ia bab-ndri...... au ’narpasu 
a-na ra-ma-ni-st Up-pi-ti-ma 


. 


u-Sar-da-a me?’ nuhsi i-na_ si-pir 
kata™ amélitim(tim) bdbu-su la ip-pi- 
[i .... ana nah(?)| b-bt alan?! 
u-Sah-ru ma-a-me 18-tu 

nart ap-pal-su-ma_ ws-te-es-se-ra_— Si- 
pir-sa a-na vlan”?! rabiite?! a-lik i-di-ia- 
ma mu-kin-nu  bal-tu(du) 
martite?! 


alpé?! 


1A fish mentioned in the Omen literature. 


24. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


o2. 


(com- 
munes with his heart) and cannot 
bring himself to believe that with 
these few people 


my sons, whoever reflects 


. I had dug that canal:—by Assur, 


If with 
these men I did not dig that canal, 


my great lord I take oath. 


and in a year (and) three months did 
not complete its construction, then 
[its construction] was not finished 
[nor] its excavation brought to com- 
pletion. 

To dedicate (open) that canal I sent 
an ashipu and a kali priest,..... 


sandu-stone (carnelian), lapis-lazuli, 
Mushgarru, Hulalu, UD-ASH stones, 


precious stones, a Balgi fish,! and a 
Suhur-lish) ee se of gold, 
choice oil, to Ea, lord of the springs, 
fountains 

and the plain(?), (and) Enbilulu, 
lord of rivers, the lords who answer 
my prayers(?), I presented as gifts. 
I prayed to the great gods, and 
they heard my prayers, and prospered 
the work of my hands. A canal- 
gate(sluice-gate) [I built] and the 
sluice-valve opened by itself and 
supplied the water of abundance ;— 
through man’s handiwork the sluice 
was not opened..... For the 
heart’s comfort(?) of the gods I dug 
water (courses). After I had planned 
the canal and directed its construc- 
tion, to the great gods, who go at my 
side, and who establish prosperity, 
sleek oxen and 


herbs, 


82 


33. 


34, 


36. 


ov. 


38. 


39. 


40. 


41. 


. Sar 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


immer é?! du-us-Su-ti “niké?? ib-bi-ti 
lu ak-ki “sdbé?! Si-nu-ti $4 nara su- 
a-tu th-ru-t kita lubulti?’ bir-me 
u-hal-lip-si-nu-te 

Sewer é”! hurdsi patré?’ hurdst as-kun- 
Su-nu-ti i-na sattiti-ma iu-ti ar ndru 
Sti-a-tu 8d ah-ru-t ut-ti™ Um-ma-an-me- 
nNa-nu 


'Hlamti** a-di 
Sarrani®'(ni) ma--du-ti sé Sadi(r) u 
tam-tim Sd ri-su-ti-Su-nu i-na ta-mir- 
ti ‘Ha-lu-li-e 


au Sar Babili® 


as-ta-kan si-dir-ta i-na ki-bit Assur 
béli rabé(e) béli-ia kr-1 “tar-ta-hi Sam- 
ri i-na lb-bi-su-nu al-lik-ma_ si-kip-te 
ummandtec?'-?'-su-nu 

as-kun pu-hur-su-nu %-Sap-pi-th-ma 
u-par-ri-ir_el-lat-su-un “"rabite?’ sar 
'Hlamti*®* a-di ™¢Nabi-sum-iskun(un) 
mar ”*M arduk-apla-iddina(na) 


Sar 'Kar-*Dun-id-das_ bal-tu-su-un 
ki-rib tam-ha-rt tk-si-da kata*-ai sar 
‘Hlamtv®* wu sar Béabilr* 


tahdzi-1a dan-nt 


har-ba-su 


is-hup-su-nu-ti-ma ki-rib “narkabate?'- 
Su-nu U-Mas-Se-ru-Nnt_ Sd-a-Su-un a-na 
Su-zu-ub nap-sa-te-Su-nu ma-tu-us-su- 
un in-nab-tu-ma 

la i-tu-ru-ni_ar-kig min-di-ma ™4Sin- 
ahé?'-eriba sar 'AsSur™* ag-gis 1-z1z-ma 
a-na 'Elamti* 1-Sak-ka-nu ta-at-ar-tt 


hat-tu pu-luh-tu ela ‘Elamti™* ka-li-su- 
un w-ta-bi-tk-ma mat-su-nu t-mas-se- 
ru-ma a-na su-zu-ub nap-sa-te-su-nu 
ki-t nasri 


33. 


34. 


36. 


37. 


38. 


39. 


40. 


41. 


fat sheep I offered as pure sacrifices. 
Those men who dug that canal I 
clothed with brightly colored linen( ?) 
garments. 

Golden rings, daggers of gold, I put 
upon them. In the same year with 
the opening (lit. flowing) of that — 
canal which I dug, against Umman- 
menanu, 


. king of Elam and the king of Baby- 


lon together with many kings of 
mountain and sea, who were their 
allies, in the plain of the city of 
Halulé 

I drew up the battle line. At the 
command of Assur, the great lord, 
my lord, like a swift javelin I went 
into their midst and accomplished 
Their 
hosts I shattered, I broke up their 
organization. The chieftains of the 
king of Elam, together with Nabt- 
shum -ishkun, Merodach- 
baladan, 

king of Babylonia, my hands took 
alive in that battle. As for the king 
of Elam and the king of Babylonia, 
the dread of my terrible onslaught 
overcame them, they forsook their 
chariots, and they fled their lands 
to save their lives. 


the defeat of their armies. 


son of 


And they did not come back. There- 
upon Sennacherib became violently 
angry and as he ordered (his army) 
to turn toward Elam, 

fear and terror were poured out over 
all of Elam, and they left their land 
and, to save their lives, like the eagle 


42. 


43. 


44. 


45. 


46. 


47. 


48. 


49. 


50. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


Sad-da-a mar-su  tn-nin-du-ma_ ki-t 
a-na is-su-rt_ kiis-Su-di i(text, at)-tar- 
ra-[|ku] lib-bu-Su-un a-di a-mi si-tim- 
ti-su-nu tu-du 

la tp-tu-ma la e-pu-s% ta-ha-zu i-na 
Sanit(2) girri-ia a-na Babili®: sa (v. §d) 
a-na ka-sa-di v%-sa-am-me-ru-sti hi-it- 
mu-tis 

al-lik-ma ki-ma ti-ib me-hi-e a-zik-ma 
ki-ma im-ba-ri. as-hu-up-si(v. Su) ala 
ni-i-tt al-me-ma i-na 


pil-si wu na-p(b)al-ka-te kata|-ar tk-su- 
da| danntite? '-Su 
sihra u% raba(a) la e-zib-ma “™pagré?'- 
Su-nu ri-bit ale 


hu-bu-ut 


ti-mal-li "St-zu-bu Sar Babili** ga-du 
kim-ti-Su [. . . 2. ] ?-su bal-tu-su- 
un a-na ki-rib mati-ia %-bil-sv (v. la) 
makkir alt su-a-tu. kaspu hurdsu 
abné”! ni-stk-ti busi makktiru a-na 
kata™ |nisé?'-ia! am-ni-i-ma a-na i-di 
ra-ma-ni-su-nu u-tir-ru 


tlani”’ a-sib lib-bi-Su kata’ nisé?'-ia 
tk-su-su-nu-ti-ma u-Sab-bi-ru-ma 
[busa|-su-nu makktra-su-nu_ il-ku-ni 


(v. %) *Adad 4Sé-la ilani?! 


Sd °Ekallati?’ sé ™4Marduk-nddin- 
ahé?' sar 'Akkadi** a-na_ tar-si 
™Tukulti(tt) -apal-e-Ssdr-ra = 'sar! 


1A SSur™ il-ku-ma a-na Babila®* 4-bil-lu 


i-na 418 sandti?! ul-tu Babile®* 4-se-sa- 
am-ma a-na °E|kalldte?’| a-na as-ri- 
Su-nu u-tir-Su-nu-ti ala u bitdte?! 


42. 


43. 


44. 


45. 


46. 


47. 


48. 


49. 


50. 


83 


betook themselves to the inaccessible 
mountain(s), and, like unto birds 
that one pursues, their hearts were 
rent. To the day of their death 

they did not come out (lit. open any 
way) nor did they make war. In 
my second campaign I advanced 
swiftly against Babylon, upon whose 
conquest I had determined, like the 
oncoming of a storm I broke loose, 
and I overwhelmed it like a hurri- 


cane. I completely invested that 
city, with 

mines and engines my hands (took 
the city), the plunder...... his 
powerful..... whether small or 
great, I left none. With their 
corpses 


I filled the city squares (wide places). 
Shuzubu, king of Babylonia, together 
with his family and his (nobles) I 
carried off alive into my land. 

The wealth of that city,—silver, gold, 
precious stones, property and goods, 
I doled out (counted into the hands 
of) to my people and they made it 
their own. 

The gods dwelling therein,—the hands 
of my people took them, and they 
smashed them. Their property and 
goods they seized. Adad and Shala, 
the gods of Ekallate (a city), whom 
Marduk-nadin-ahé, king of Babylon, 
in the reign of Tiglath-pileser, king 
of Assyria, had seized and carried off 
to Babylon, 

after four hundred and eighteen years 
I brought them out of Babylon and 
returned them to their place in Ekal- 
late. The city and (its) houses,— 


84. 


Or 
iS 


. ap-pr 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


ul-tu ussé-Su a-di gab-dib-bi-su ab-bul 


i-na girrt ak-mu diru u 
bitati?? 


libitt? wu epirie?’ ma-la ba-su-% 


ak-kur 


Sal-hu-u ilani®' = zik-kur-rat 


as-suh-ma a-na "A-ra-ah-ti ad-di ina 
ki-rib ali Si-a-tu "hi-ra'-a-ti ah-ri-e-ma 
ir-si-is-su-nu (v. om.) 7-na (v. ina) méP! 
as-pu-un Si-kin 


. us-Se-Su U-hal-lik-ma eli sd a-bu-bu 


na-al-ban-ta-su. %-Sa-tir as-si ah-rat 
a-mi kak-kar ali St-a-tu w bitdati?! 
alana”! 


la mus-si 7-na ma-a-mi us-har-mit-su- 
ma ag-da-mar %-Ssal-lis i-na pi-t nari 
$a U-Sah-ru-t i-na ki-rib §¢Ta-as 


5. G6 wnunaré?! [dan-nu-ti! sa-lam ilani?! 


rabativ! bélé?! -ia ab-ta-ni ki-rib-su-un 
au sa-lam Sarru-ti-ia la-bi-in 
ma-har-su-un ul-ziz2  mimma 
lip-ta-at kata*-ia sd ki-rib Ninuat** 
i-tib-bu-Su st-ru-us-Su-un U-Sa-as-tir- 
ma 


. a-na Sarrdni'?'(ni)méaré'-ca e-pis-ti-is 


ma-ti-ma rubt ar-ku-u i-na sarrdni”! 
(nt) maré?'-ia Sa e-pis-tt e-pu-su 


. t-sah (text Sam)-hu-% rik-sa-te ar-ku- 


su i-pat-ta-ru mé?! pat-ta-a-ti: Sa-ti-na 
ul-tu ta-mir-ti Ninua®* . . . . ma-lak- 


Sin 


ol; 


52. 


54. 


or 
Or 


56. 


foundation and walls (lit. from its 
foundation to its walls), I destroyed, 
I devastated, I burned with fire. 
The wall and outer wall, temples and 
gods, temple-tower of brick and earth, 
as many as there were, ° 

I razed and dumped them into the 
Arahtu-canal. Through the midst 
of that city I dug canals, I flooded 
its site (lit. ground) with water, and 
the very 


. foundations thereof (lit. the structure 


of its foundation) I destroyed. I 
made its destruction more complete 
than that by a flood. That in days 
to come, the site of that city, and 
(its) temples and gods, 

might not be remembered, I com- 
pletely blotted it out with (floods) 
of water and made it like a meadow. 
At the mouth of the canal which 
I dug through the midst of the 
mountain of Tas, 

I fashioned six great stelas with the 
images of the great gods, my lords, 
upon them, and my royal image, 
with face averted 

(in prayer), I set up before them. 
Every deed of my hands, which I 
wrought for the good of Nineveh, I 
had engraved thereon, 


57. to be a memorial(?) to the kings, 


If ever there is a future 
prince among the kings, my sons, 
who 


my sons. 


. destroys the work which I have done, 


(and) breaks the covenant I have 
(hereby) made with him, diverts 
the course of the waters of those 
canals from the plain of Nineveh, 


60. 


10. 


. dni?! rabiite?’ ma-la i-na 


. ekal 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


abnunaré 
an-ni-e Sti-mu na-bu-% i-na si-it pi-i- 
Su-[nu] 

pars? el-li §é la na-{du-u ar-rat limut]- 
ti li-ru-ru-su-ma lis-ki-pu palé-su 


59. 


60. 


85 


may the great gods, all whose names 
are named in these stelas, by the 
word of their mouth, 

a holy decree which cannot fail, 
curse him with an evil curse, and 
overthrow his rule. 


b) THE NEBI YUNUS INSCRIPTION (H 4) 


mdSin-ahé?'-eri-ba Sarru rabi 
Sarru dan-nu sar kissati sar 'Assur* 


Sar kib-rat irbittim (tim) 


. mi-gir ildni?’ rabiite?’ lu-li-mu ir-st 


ma-al-ku pit-ku-du ri-é-um ba-hu-la-a- 
ta 


. mut-tar-ru-% nisé?! rap-sa-a-ti a-na-ku 


44 sSur abu ildni”! i-na kul-lat ma-li- 


ki 


. ki-ni§ tppalsa-ni-ma eli gi-mir a-sib 


pa-rak-ki %-Sar-ba-a “kakké?'-ia .. . 


. “hattu 7t-Sar-tu mu-rap-pi-sat_ mi-is-rt 


Si-bir-ru la pa-du-t% a-na Sum-kut za- 
1-1 


. t-Sat-me-ih rit-tu-i-a i-na_ ta-ha-az 


séri ™4Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sar 


'Kar-4dun-id-ags 


. mK al-du vu *A-ra-me a-di ummanat??! 


Elamti** ri-si-Su a-bu-bis as-pu-un 
Su-t 


. a-na mat tam-tim e-dis tp-par-sid-ma 


tldni®* ma-sal médti-Su it-ti mesréte 


(GIR-PAD-DU)?! abé?!-&u 


. mah-ru-ti ul-tu ki-rib kimahhi th-pi- 


ir-ma nisé?'[-Su] a-na ki-rib “elippate?' 


u-se-li-ma a-na °‘Na-gi-ti sd e-bir-tan 
"Mar-rat e-bir-ma i-na as-ri 


1: 


10. 


. he put into my hand. 


Palace of Sennacherib, the great king, 
the mighty king, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria, king of the four 
quarters (of the world); 


. favorite of the great gods; wise sover- 


eign, provident prince, shepherd of 
peoples, 


. ruler of widespread nations, am I. 


Assur, father of the gods, regarded 
me with favor 


. above (lit. among) all princes, and 


made great above all 
(those) who dwell in palaces; 


my arms 


. a righteous scepter, which enlarges 


the border, an unsparing lance for 
the overthrow of my enemies, 

In open battle 
(lit. a battle of the plain) like a hurri- 
cane (deluge) I cast down Merodach- 
baladan, king of Babylonia, 


. the Chaldeans and Aramaeans, to- 


gether with the armies of Elam, his 
ally. That one 


. fled alone to the Sea-land and the 


gods of his whole land, with the bones 
of his fathers, 


. (who lived) before (him), (which) he 


gathered from their coffins, and his 
people, 

he loaded on ships and crossed over to 
Nagitu, which is on the other side of the 
Bitter-Sea (Persian Gulf); and in that 


86 


17 


12. 


13. 


14, 


15. 


16. 


Lis 


18. 


19. 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Su-a-tu i-mid sad-da-su gi-mir mati-su 
ak-sud(ud)-ma Sal-la-tis am-nu aldni?'- 
Su ab-bul ak-kur 


i-na girrt ak-mu ak-Sud(ud) °Hi-rim- 
mu wv mat *”La-su-bi-gal-la-ai mat ‘EI- 
li-pr 

u-sal-pit-ma vt-ab-bit da-dd-me-sa sd 
™Du-li-t sar “Si-du-un-ni e-kim sarrt- 
su 

™T'u-ba--lu i-na “kusst-Su t-se-sib-ma 
man-da-at-tu béli-ti-ia wu-kin si-ru- 
Us-SU 

u-sal-pit rap-su na-gu-t ‘Ta-v-di. ™Ha- 
2a-ki-a-% Sarra-st e-mid ap-sa-a-ni 
amélitt  ¢°Tu-mur-ra-ai —_a-si-bu-ut 
Sadi(2) mar-si i-na “kakki v-sam-kit 
‘Uk-ku 

a-di nap-har da-dd-me-su ki-ma_ tal 
a-bu-bi t-ab-bit nisé?! 'Hi-lak-ki a-si- 
bu-ut 


hur-sa-a-ni_a-nar i-na “kakki aléni?'- 
Su-nu ab-bul ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu 


eTil-ga-rim-mu 'Ta-ba-li 
aksud(ud)-ma v-tir a-na kar-me °Na- 
gi-tu 

°Na-gi-tu-di->-bi-na 'Hi-il-mu 'Bil-la- 
tu ‘Hu-pa-pa-a-nu na-gi-e 

sa sar 'Hlamti”! sd i-na e-bir-tan tamtim 


Sa pa-at 


sit-ku-na-at St-bat-sun sé niséP! 
‘Bit-"La-kin la-pa-an “kakké-ia dan- 
nu-ti tldni?! mati-su-un i-na Subti-su- 
NU 


id-ku-% tam-tim e-bi-ru-ma %-si-bu ki- 
rib-Su-un i-na “elippdte?’ 'Hat-tr 
1 That is, Syrian, Phoenician, ships. 


it 


12. 


13. 


14. 


15. 


16. 


ia 


18. 


19. 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


place he died. The whole of his 
land I conquered and counted as 
booty. His cities I destroyed, I 
devastated, 

I burned with fire. I conquered 
Hirimmu and the land of the Yasubi- 
gallai; the land of the Ellipi I 
overthrew, and I destroyed its towns. 
I deprived Luli, king of Sidon, of his 
kingdom. 

Tuba’lu I set on his throne and 
imposed my royal tribute upon him. 


I overthrew the wide province of 
Judah. On Hezekiah, its king, I 
laid my yoke. 

The people of Tumur, who live in the 
steep mountains, I cut them down 
with the sword. Ukku 

with all of its towns, I destroyed (so 
that they were) like ruins (left by) 
a hurricane (deluge). The people 
of Cilicia, who live 

in the mountains, I slew with the 
sword; their cities I destroyed, I 
devastated, I burned with fire. 
Til-garimmu, which is on the border 
of Tabalu, I captured and turned 
into ruins. Nagitu, 

Nagitu-di’ bina, Hilmu, Billatu, Hupa- 
panu, the provinces 

of the king of Elam, which lie on the 
other side of the sea, where the people 
of Bit-Yakin, gathering the gods of 
their lands out of their shrines, before 
my mighty arms, and crossing the 
sea, 

had settled,—in Hittite! ships 


25. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


33. 


34. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


. §é i-na Ninua®’ wv ¢Til-bar-si-ip e-pu- 


Su tam-tim lu e-bir aldni?' sd ki-rib 
na-gi-e Sa-tu-nu aksud(ud)-ma i-na 
girrt ak-mu nisé?? "Bit--La-kin u 
alan? '-Su-nu 

a-di ba-hu-la-a-te sar 'Klamti** as-lu- 


lam-ma a-na 'Assur** v%-ra-a 


ar-ka Babilai*'?! ga it-ti ™¢*Marduk- 
apla-iddina(na) t-su-t% in-nab-tu E- 
lam-tas 

Sar 'Elamti** a-na Baébili** (aljilliku- 


“nim-ma ™Si-zu-bu mar "Ga-hul i-na 


~kusst Sarru-te 


eli-Su-nu %-Se-Sib-ma_ sabéP! vkakki 
(so Sm.-Sayece, IR has ~hattz) 
~narkabati?’ sisé?' ki-sir Ssarru-ti-ia 
a-na mi-th-rit 

Sar 'Elamti®* t-ma--ir ummédndtec?! 
ma--du it-tt mdari-su i-du-ku-ma i-tur 
ar-ka-nis 

Si-nu a-di! Uruk¥* 7is-tam-di-hu 
dSamag §é Larsa** ¢Béltu $4 Eridu® 
(? text NUN-E-SI) *Béltu $4 Uruk 
4N a-na-a 

40 -sur-a-mat-sa *Be-lit bald ti ¢Kurun- 
nam(GAS-TIN-nam)  ‘¢Kas-si-tu 
4Nergal (IGI-DU) tlana?! a-si-bu-ut 
Uruk** a-di bust-su-nu = makktra- 
Su-nu Sd la ni-bi ts-lu-lu-ni i-na ta-ai- 
ar-ti-Su-nu 


™St-zu-bu sar Babile™ i-na tahdz sére 
bal-tu-su ik-si-da kdtdé¢-su-un e-ri- 
in-nu 


1Smith-Sayce, na. 


2 Usually identified with Birejik, on the upper Euphrates. 


24. 


25 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


33. 


34. 


87 


which I built in Nineveh and Til- 
barsip,? I crossed the sea. The cities of 
. those captured and 
burned with fire. The people of Bit- 
Yakin, and their gods, 

together with the men of the king of 
Elam, I carried off and brought them 
to Assyria. 

Afterwards, the Babylonians who had 
left with Merodach-baladan and had 
fled to Elam, 

(and) the king of Elam, came to 
Babylon, and he (the Elamite king) 
placed Shuzubu, son of Gahul, on 
the royal throne 

Soldiers, chariots, horses, 
my royal host, against 


provinces I° 


over them. 


the king of Elam I sent. Many of 
his host, together with his son, they 
slew, and he turned back. 

But they marched on to Erech. 
Shamash of Larsa, Beltis of Eridu( ?), 
Beltis of Erech, Nana, 


Usuramatsa, Beltis (goddess) of life, 
Kurunnam, Kashshitu, Nergal, the 
gods dwelling 

in Erech, as well as their property and 
their goods,—there was no numbering 
it, they carried off as spoil. On their 
return (march) 

they (lit. their hands) seized Shuzubu, 
king of Babylon, alive, in open battle 
(lit. battle of the plain). They threw 


But see Hall, Ancient History of the 


Near East, p. 488, n. 4, where reference is made to R. C. Thompson’s identification of this place with 
Tell Ahmar, near Jerabis. 


88 


35. 


36. 


ie 


38. 


39. 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44, 


45. 


46. 


47. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


bi-ri-tu. id-du-si-ma_ a-di mah-ri-ia 
ub-lu-nis-si i-na abulli kabal ala sda 
Ninua** 

ar-ku-su da-bu-t-e§ sar 'Elamti®* sa 
ri-su-ut ™Babila® ?! al-li-ku 

a-na mati-su lu al-lik aldni?! dan-nu-te 
bit-ni-sir-ti-Su au aldni?’ sthriti?! sa 
li-me-ti-su-nu 


a-di ne-ri-bi sé 'Bit-"Bu-na-ak-ki 
al-me ak-Sud(ud) as-lu-la sal-la-su-un 
ab-bul 

ak-kur t-na girrt ak-mu sar 'Elamtc* 
ka-sad_ aldni?'-Su is-me-ma_ im-ku-su 
hat-tum 

si-it-tt nisé?! mdti-su a-na dan-na-a-ti 
u-Se-li Su-% “Ma-dak-tu al Sarru-ti-su 


e-zib-ma a-na °Ha-i-da-la sé ki-rib 
§ad-di-i 1s-ta-kan pa-ni-su 

a-na ‘“Ma-dak-te al sarru-ti-su a-la-ku 
ak-bi 7 Tebitu ku-us-su dan-nu tk-st- 
dam-ma 


sa-mu-tum la zi-iz-tum il-lik-ma sal-gu 
na-hal-lum na-ad-bak sadi(z) a-du-ra 
u-tir-ma 

a-na 'Assur** as-ba-ta har-ra-na ar-ka 
Sar 'E-lam-ti 'Par-su-as 'An-za-an 


'Pa-si-ru 'Hl-li-pt nap-har 'Kal-di 
am A-ra-me ka-li-Su-un kit-ru rabii(i) 
ik-te-ra it-ti-Su a-di sar 'Babili** a-na 
a-ha-mes tk-ri-bu-ma a-na e-pis 


tahdzi i-na trti-ta iliku-ni t-na e-muk 
44 Sur béli-ia i-na ta-mir-tt °*Ha-lu- 
li-e (text, na) 


35. 


36. 


37. 


38. 


39. 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44, 


45, 


46. 


47. 


him fettered into a cage and brought 
him before me. I tied him up in 
the middle city-gate of Nineveh, 
like a pig. The king of Elam who 
had come to aid the Babylonians,— 
against his land I marched. The 
strong cities, his treasure-houses 
(cities), and the small cities of their 
environs, 

as far as the pass of (or, entrance to) 
Bit-Bunakki, I besieged, I captured, 
I carried off their spoil, I destroyed, 
I devastated, I burned with fire. The 
king of Elam heard of the capture of 
his cities and terror fell upon him. 
The remnant of the people of his 
land he brought up into strongholds, 
while he (himself) forsook Madaktu, 
his royal city, 

and turned his face toward Haidala 
which is in the midst of the mountains. 
To Madaktu, his royal city, I ordered 
the march. Tebitu (the tenth Baby- 
lonian month) (with) severe weather 
(cold) set in, 
uninterrupted rains came on, and 
snow. I was afraid of the swollen 
mountain streamsand turned back and 
took the road to Assyria. Thereupon 
the king of Elam gathered to himself 
a large body of confederates,—(the 
men) of Parsuas, Anzan, 

Pashiru, Ellipi, the whole of Chaldea, 
and all the Aramaeans. 

These, with the king of Babylon, 
drew near en masse, and set upon me, 
offering battle. 

(Trusting) in the might of Assur, my 
lord, I fought with them in the plain 
of Halulé, 


48. 


49. 


50. 


51. 


52. 


53. 


4. 


0d. 


c) 


. [urd] ar-ka Sar(?) [. .. 


. [("¢Marduk'-apla-iddina(na) 7 
. [“\kakké?'-ca dan-nu-ti [ig-rul-ru-ma 


. [Sti-zu-bu 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 


it-ti-Su-nu  am-da-hi-is tahtd-su-nu 
as-kun 150,000 sabé?' tahdzi-su-nu 
i-na “kakki 

u-Sam-kit “narkabdate®’ “su-wm-ba-a-ti 
vea-ra-ti. Sarru-ti-su-nu_e-kim-su-nu-ti 
amrabtite?'-su-nu a-di =™4Nabii-sum- 
iskun(un) mar md Marduk-apla- 
iddina(na) Sa i-na “narkabate?! kaspi 
[u-Su-uz|-zu as-ma-a-ti: hurdsi tul-lu-t 
patré?! hurdst sit-ku-nu uw i-na 
[Seweré?"! hurdst ru-uk-ku-sa rit-li-su- 
un bal-tu-su-un  ki-rib-— tam-ha-ri 
ik-su-da 

kdtét-ai Sar Babili®’ wu sar 'Elamtc* 
har-ba-Su  tahdzi-ia ~~ is-hwp-su-nu-te 
ki-rib 


vnarkabdte?'-su-nu t-mas-se-ru-nt Zu- 
u-Su-un e-dis tp-par-sid-du-ma ma-tu- 
US-SU-UN 
in-nab-tu 


48 


49. 


52. 


53. 


54. 


55. 


89 


. I defeated them, cutting down with 
the sword 150,000 of their warriors. 


Their chariots, wagons and royal 

tents I took from them. 

. Their nobles, as well as Nabti-shum- 
ishkun, son of Merodach-baladan, 
who stood (?) on silver chariots, 

. were bedecked with golden orna- 

ments, wore golden daggers, 

had their fingers covered (lit. bound) 

with golden rings, 


I (lit. my hands) captured alive in 
the battle. As for the king of Baby- 
lon and the king of Elam, the chilling 
terror of my battle overcame them, 
they let their dung go into their 
chariots, they ran off alone, 


and fled their land. 


SLAB CONTAINING AN ABBREVIATED RECORD OF THE EIGHT ROYAL CAMPAIGNS, 
WITH THE ACCOUNT OF A LATE CAMPAIGN (BY THE KING’S 
GENERALS?) AGAINST ARABIA (H5) 


. [a-di bal-hu-la-ti [sar Elamti aslulam- 


ma ana 'Assur* ‘| 
Spomiitis.. seal 


. [d'-us-su-ma in-nab-tu E-lam-tas 


. (BE -la-mu-t a-na Babili®* (aljilliku- 


nim-|ma] 
i|-na “kusst Sarru- 


ti eli-Su-nu %t-se-[sib] 


ik, 
. together with] the men of [the king 


2 


[The people of Bit-Yakinand their gods 


of Elam I carried off and brought 
them to Assyria!. 
. Afterwards [the Babylonians 
had 
. .... [with] Merodach-baladan...... 
he. ae [before] my mighty weapons 
had run away and 
had gone forth and fled to 


who 


alte) Je" 8” 


these and] the Elamite came 
to Babylon, 

. [and he (the Elamite king)] placed 
[Shuzubu] on the royal throne over 
them. 


90 


10. 


11: 


12. 


13. 


14. 


16. 


lis 


18. 


19. 


20. 


a) 


22. 


23. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


. [sdbé?! “hatte “narkabdte?'| sisé?! ki-sir 


Sarru-ti-ia a-na me-th-rit 
[Sar ‘Hlamti** umarir| ummdandte°?'-su 
ma--du it-ti mari-su i-'du'-ku-ma 


[iturma arkanis Sunu adi] Uruk** 
is-tam-di-hu 4Samas sé Larsa** 
[ Pere ee alani?'| a-si-bu-ut  kir-bi-su 


a-di busé-su-nu 


[makktrisunu sa la nibi 281-lu-lu-ni 
ina ta-ai-ar-ti-Su-nu ™S%-zu-bu 


[sar Babilt ina tahdz séri’ bal-tu-su 
is-ba-tu-nim-ma a-di mah-ri-ia 


. [ublainissu ina abulli! kabal alc sa 


Ninua* ar-ku-su da-bu-t-es 


[Sar EHlamti** Sa ri-su-lut ¢Bdabilé** P! 
al-li-ku 

lana matisu lu allik aldni?'| dan-nu-ti 
bit-ni-sir-ti-su u alam?’ sihrite?! 


[Sa limétisunu adi] ne-ri-bi Sd "Bit- 
™Bu-na-ak-ki al-me akSud(ud) 


laslula Sallasun ab-|bu-ul ak-kur 7i-na 
gurrt ak-mu 

[Sar 'Hlamtt kasdd aldni”'-su 1s]-me-ma 
im-kut-su hat-tum si-it-ti nisé?’ mati- 
Su 


lana dannati uséli st al-na “Ma-dak-tu 
al Sarru-ti-su e-zib-ma 


[ana ‘Haidala sa kirib! Sadi(2) is-ta-kan 
pa-ni-Su 

lana ‘Madaktu al sarré-ti'-su a-la-ku 
ak-bi %Tebétu. ku-us-su dan-nu 


0: 


10. 


Li. 


12 


13. 


14. 


15. 


16. 


Lie 


18. 


Lo, 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


[Soldiers, chariots] horses, my royal 
host, against 

[the king of Elam I sent]. Many of 
his host, together with his son, they 
slew. But 

{I turned back, while they] marched 
on to Erech, Shamash of Larsa, 

[the gods] dwelling therein 
(that is, in Erech) together with their 
property 

[and their goods,—there was no 
numbering it], they carried off as spoil. 
On their return (march), Shuzubu 
[king of Babylon] they captured alive 
in open battle 

and [brought him] before me. I 
tied him up [in the gate] in the middle 
the city of Nineveh like a pig. 

[The king of Elam] who had come to 
the aid of the Babylonians,— 
[against his land I marched.] The 
strong cities, his treasure-houses 
(cities) and the small cities 

[of their environs, as far as] the pass 
of (or, entrance to) Bit-Bunakki, I 
besieged, I captured, 

[I carried off their spoil], I destroyed, 
I devastated, I burned with fire. 
[The king of Elam] heard of the [cap- 
ture of his cities] and terror fell upon 
him. The remnant of the people of 
his land 

[he brought up into strongholds,] 
while he himself forsook Madaktu, 
his royal city and 

turned his face to [Haidala which is 
in the] midst of the mountains. 

[To Madaktu, his royal] city, I 
ordered the march. Tebetu,! with 
severe weather 


‘The tenth Babylonian month, that is, December-January. 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 91 


[a-du-ra'! u-tir-ma a-na 'A sur? 
as-ba-la har-ra-nu 


BOs ts: 3 Sti-ub na-gi-su i-na ela ti-la-ni 


26. . . . [se-at-|ta nisé?! mati-su sda la-pa- 
an “kakké?'-ia 


27. [ipparsidh ... . 2... u-se|-ri-dam-ma 
u-Se-sib di-ra-a-w 
eae nisé?! mati-su ak-si-ud-ma Ssal- 


la-tis am-nu 


PA Pi ae ina girrt ak-mu e"Babilak* P! 
Be eae [¢p-hu'-ru-ma = ik-nu-Su—— S- 
pal-su 
1S Pam [a-na] Si-an-na* a-la-ku ak-bi 
Rev. 
ae mete : u% mi-sa-ti-1§ hat-tum im-kut-su- 
nu-te 
2. [.... tp-tul-t% hurdsa kaspa ni-sik-ti 


abné”! a-na sar Elamtvi** 


3. [¢s-pul-ru-su ki-a-am a-na Babilv* | 


EYE gat Pe tu-kul-ta-nt lu at-ta su-u 
[sar] Elamtc* 

Seekers ee lakSud-|ma as-lu-la Sal-la-su 
aldni?'-su ab-bu-la 

Eile Sa ar ak|-mu-t i-na uz-ni-su ul 2b- 
Sa-a 

{hci ee [da-|?-tu *"Babilé™ »' im-hur|[- 
ma| 

Be ay ais ul ik-ba-a e-pi-su-un 


9. [. . . . t-pal-hi-ir-ma 'Par-su-as 'An- 
za-an 'Pa-si-ru 


24. 


[) | 


. [asa gift they sent. 


[sets it ees | I was afraid [of the 
swollen mountain streams] and turned 
back and took the road to Assyria. 


.... Of his province upon tells. 
Aha A eee the rest of the people of his 
land who [had fled] before my weap- 
ons, 

.... he(?) brought down and 
settled in the forests(?). 

. ... the people of his land, I cap- 
tured and counted as spoil. 

A eh I burned with fire. The 
Babylonians 

.... gathered together and sub- 
mitted to him. 

. . . . L ordered the march to Baby- 
lon (Shuanna). 

.... With lamentation. Fear fell 


upon them. 


. [The treasury of Esagila they opened], 


gold, silver, precious stones to the 
king of Elam 

Their messenger] 
they dispatched with the message: 


. “To Babylon [hasten, come to our 


ald (side)] for thou art our trust.” 
That Elamite [king] 


. [whom in the course of my former 


campaign I had defeated], had carried 
off his spoil, had destroyed his cities, 


. [had devastated and] burned [them] 


with fire, who hadn’t any sense, 

received the gifts of the Baby- 

lonians. 

did not tell them what to do( ?) 

[his army and camp] he 
and Parsuash, Anzan, 


‘i Os ns 


gathered 
Pashiru. 


13. 


14, 


15. 


16. 


ib f: 


18. 


AME 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Fav eieigy < tea® am A -ra-me ka-li-su-un kit-ru 
rabi(%) 

eins (Babli médré Badbili®* Bar- 
sip** 

Pie aes [al-na e-pis ta-ha-zt a-na irti-1a 


illiku(ku)-ni 


lina emuk ¢Assur bélia ina] ta-mir-te 
‘(Ha-lu-li|-e it-ti-su-nu 


lamdahis tahtésunu askun] 150,000 
lamsabér! ta-ha]-2i-su-nu 

lina “kakki usamkit “narkabdte?! “sul- 
um-ba-a-ti “za-ra-ti |Sarru-ti'-Su-nu 
e-kim-su-nu-ti ~ 

lrabite?'-sunu adi ™?Nabii|-sum-iskun 
(un) mar ™¢Marduk-apla-iddina(na) 
[sa ina “narkabdti”! kaspi usuz]-zu (?) 
as-ma-a-lt hurdsi tul-lu-i = patré?! 
hurdsi sit-ku-nu 

lu ina Seweré?! hurdsi ruj-uk-ku(text 
lu)-sa rit-ti-su-un bal-tu-us-su[-un] 
|kirib tamhari tk-si'-da kdtaé*-ai Sar 
Babilt®* wv sar ‘Elamte* 


[harbasu tahdzia is|-hup-su-nu-ti ki-rib 
vnarkabdte?'-Su-nu U-mas-se-ru-nt 


[ztisun edis tpparsidu'-ma ma-tu-us- 
Su-un in-nab-tu 

fTelhul-nu sar-rat *”A-ra-bi 
i-na ki-rib mad-ba-rt 

[. . . 2],000 gammalé?! e-kim ka-tus-sa 
si-t ut-ti ™Ha-za-ilu 

[.... harbasu ta-ha-zi)-ia is-hup- 
Su-nu-tt kul-ta-ri-su-nu t-mas-se-ru- 
ma 

. [. . . .J-lu *A-du-wm-ma-te a-na nap- 
§a-a-ti in-nab-tu 


10 


iis 


12: 
13. 


14. 


Ae 


Li 


18. 


12: 


21. 


22. 


. [I cut down with the sword. 


all the Aramaeans, an enor- 
mous host of confederates 

[he called to his side. Babylon’ and 
the Babylonians, Borsippa 
land the men of Borsippa 


_to make battle they came on against 


me. 

[In the might of Assur my lord], in 
the plain of Halulé, [I fought] with 
them, 

[I defeated them], 150,000 of their 
warriors 

Their 
chariots], wagons, and royal tents I 
took from them. 

Their nobles, as well as Nabd-shum- 
ishkun, son of Merodach-baladan, 
who stood (?) on silver chariots, were 
bedecked with golden ornaments, 
wore golden daggers, 

[had their fingers] covered with 
[golden rings], these, alive 

[in the midst of the battle] my hand 
captured. The king of Babylon and 


_ the king of Elam,— 
20. 


[the chilling terror of my battle] 
overcame them and they let their 
dung go into their chariots. 

[They ran off alone] and fled their 
land. 

. . . [Telhunu], queen of the Arabs, 
in the midst of the desert, 

x thousand camels I took 
from her hand. She, with Hazael, 
[the terror of my battle] 
overcame them, they left their tents, 


to). these tot 
they fled for their lives. 


Adummatu 


HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 93 


Rev. 

26. [. . . . *A-dul-wm-ma-tu 8d 
mad-ba-ri Sit-ku-na-at §i-bat-sun 

eae | 


la ba-su-% ki-rib-sul-un| 


su-me Sd ri-t-lu mas-ki-tu 


ki-rib 26. sw 


27 


[and] Adummatu, which are 
situated in the desert, 
... . Of thirst, wherein there are no 


feeding nor drinking places. 


d) SEAL OF TUKULTI-URTA I (H6) 


1. [?Tukult)-MAS gar kisSati  apil 
4Sulmdnu(nu)-asaridu sar "Assur 

2. kisitti(ti) “Kar-du mu-ni-kir sitri-ia 

— Sumi-ia 

3. Assur 4Adad sum-su mat-su lu-hal-li- 
ku 

4, erukunukku an-nu-u itu ‘Assur ana 
‘Akkadt** sa-ri vk-ta-din 

5. ana-ku ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar Assur 

. ina 600 sandte®’ Bab-ili akSud(ud)-ma 


7. itu makkir Bab-ili us-si-si-as-su 


or) 


Edge 
makktr Sa-ga-ra-ak-ti-Sur-ia-d& Sar 
kissate 

Rev. 

1. ¢Tukulti-MAS Sar kisSati —apil 
4Sulmdnu(nu)-Casaridu> sar "Assur 

2. [kisitte|(te) 'Kar-du-ni-si = mu-ni-kir 
Sitri-ia Sumi-1a 

3. Assur 4Adad sum-su mdt-su  lu-hal- 
li-ku 

4, makktir Sa-ga-ra-ak-ti-Sur-ia-d& Sar 
kissate 

5. Sa ina eli &™“kunukki sé ukni 


if. 


ise 


MON 


Tukulti-Urta, king of the universe, 
son of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria. 
Booty of Babylonia. Who blots out 
my inscribed name, 


. may Assur and Adad destroy his 


name and his land. 


. This seal found some hidden way 


from Assyria to hostile Akkad. 

I, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, 
after 600 years, took Babylon, 

and from the (booty) of 
Babylon, I selected it. 


wealth 


Property of Shagarakti-Shuriash, king 
of the universe. 


. Tukulti-Urta, king of the universe, 


son of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria. 
Booty of Babylonia. Who blots out 


my written name, 


. may Assur and Adad destroy his 


name and his land. 
Property of Shagarakti-Shuriash, king 
of the universe. 


. What was on a seal-cylinder of lapis- 


lazuli. 


ib 


CHAPTER VI 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


EARLIEST RECORD! OF THE IMPROVEMENTS UNDERTAKEN 


BY SENNACHERIB AT NINEVEH (A1) 


63. i-na t-mi?-si-ma_ Ninua** ma-ha-zu3 


64. 


65. 


66. 


67. 


si-z-ru alu na-[ram] 4Is-tar sé nap-har 
ki-du-di-e tldm”! w4 41 stardte?! ba-su-u4 
ki-rib-st 

tim-me-en-nu da-ru-% du-ru-us sa-[a]|-ti 
Sd ul-tu ul-la it-ti si-tir bu-ru-wm5-me 
is-rat-su is-rit-ma si-pu-% si-in-du-su® 


as-ru. nak-lu’ si-bat pi-ris-ti sa’ 
mimma sum-su® si-pir  ni-kal-tim™ 


gi-mir bil-lu-di-e ni-sir-ti!! LAL.GAR 


Su-ta-bu-lu ki-rib-su 


Sé ul-tu ul-la Sarrdni?'(ni) a-[li]-kut 
mah-ri abé?"8-1a ul-la-nu-u-a be-lu-ut! 
LA SSur®* e-pu-su-ma t-ma-i-ru> ba-u- 
lat ¢Hn-lil 

w Sat-ti'®-sam la na-par-ka-a {e]-rib la 
nar-ba-a-ti bilat mal-ki kib-rat ar-ba-?1 
im-da-na'8-ha-ru ki-rib-st 


63. At that time, Nineveh, the noble 


6 


6 


6 


(=p) 


4. 


5. 


6. 


metropolis, the city beloved of Ishtar, 
wherein are all the meeting-places of 
gods and goddesses; 

the everlasting substructure, the 
eternal foundation; whose plan had 
been designed from of old, and whose 
structure had been made beautiful 
along with the firmament of heaven; 
the beautiful (artistic) place, the 
abode of divine law (decision, rule), 
into which had been brought all kinds 
of artistic workmanship, every secret 
and pleasant (?) plan (or command, 
of god); 

where from of old, the kings, who 
went before, my fathers, had exer- 
cised the lordship over Assyria before 
me, and had ruled the subjects of Enlil, 


. and yearly without interruption, had 


received therein an unceasing income, 
the tribute of the princes of the four 
quarters (of the world). 


1 Written after the first campaign. The bracketed portions of the transliterations are for the 
most part restored from variants, and are therefore not conjectural. 


2 C1-4, me. 8 C14, Sd. 

3 C1-4, zi. ° Bl, C14, du. 
4C1-4, u. 10 B1, C1-4, ti. 
5C1-4, a. C1, te. 

6 C4, Su. 2 Cl, 3, la. 

7 C3, lum. 18 C1, 4, abi. 


94 


4 Bl, tu, Cl-4, ti. 

1% C1, ir; C4, tr-ru. 

16 Cl, 2, 4, td. 

17 Cl, 4, om. 

18 Bl, C2, 3, insert ah. 


68. 


69. 


70. 


ray 


72. 


(Es 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


ai-um-ma_ i-na! lib?-bi-Su-nu—a-na 
ekalli ri-mit 
be-lu-luw sd sut-hur® su-bat-su li-e-su 
ul id’-da-a lib-bu-us ul th?-su-us 


kir-bi-si = kum-mu 


a-na st-te-Sur stk ali uw Sum-dul ri-ba- 
a-li ha-ri-e nari za-ka-ap sip-pa-a-te® 
W-zu-un-Su ul ib-si-ma ul us-ta-bil 
ka-ras-su 


ta-q-ti ™ 4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba sar 'A ssur** 
e-pis Sip-ri St-a-tu ki-c te-im cldni?! 
na uz-ni-ia ib-si-ma ka-bit-ti ub- 
lam-ma 


te-ne-sit |'Kal]-di °"A-ra-mu8 'Man- 
na-ai 'Ku-e ul4 'Hi-lak-ku sa® a-na 
ni-ri-ia'® la kit-nu-su" as-su'8-ha-am- 
ma dup-sik-ku'!® %-sa-as-s1-su-nu-ti- 
ma, il-bi-nu libitta 


a-pt ku-pr|-e?! sd] kirtb **Kal-di ak-sit- 
ma ap-pas-ri-su-un* sam-hu-ti i-na 
ba-hu-la-ti® na-ki-rt ko?®-sct-ti katae-1a 
u-Sal-di-da a-na e-pis Sip-ri-sa 


ekallu mah-[ri-tu] sa 30 GAR sid-du u 
10 GAR pit-sa sd Sarréni?'(nt) a-li- 
kut pa-ni abé?'-ia %-se-pi-si-ma_ la 
u-nak-ki-lu si-pir-sa 


68. 


69. 


70. 


iA 


72. 


73. 


95 


Not one among them had given his 
thoughtful attention to, nor had his 
heart considered, the palace therein, 
the place of the royal abode, whose 
site had become too small; 

(nor) had he turned his thought (lit. 
ear), nor brought his mind (lit. liver), 
to lay out the streets of the city, to 
widen the squares, to dig a canal, to 
set out trees. 

But I, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, 
gave my thought (ear) and brought 
my mind, to accomplish this work 
according to the command (will) of 
the gods. 

The people of Chaldea, the Ara- 
maeans, the Mannai, (the people) of 
Kue and Hilakku, who had not sub- 
mitted to my yoke, I snatched away 
(from their lands), made them carry 
the basket and mold bricks. 

I cut down the reed marshes which 
are in Chaldea, and had the men of 
the foe whom my handshad conquered 
drag their mighty reeds (to Assyria) 
for the completion of its work. 

The former palace, which was30GAR” 
on the side and 10 GAR on its front, 
which the kings, who went before, my 
fathers, had built, whose structure 
they had not, however, made artistic, 


1Cl1, 3, 4, ina. 1 C3, a-a. 19 Bl, ki. 

2C1-4, lib. 21, 4, a. 20 C3, om. 

3 Bl, C1+4, ti. 13 C1-4, me. 21 C3, 4. 

4 C3, zu. 14 C1-4 om. and add ?! Pi- 2Cl, ¢. 

6 C14, ub-hu-ru. lis-tu(te) wu! Sur-ri after Hilakku. 3 C3, om. 

6 Bl, i; C3, id-di. * BI, C1-+, Sd. 4 C3, om. 

703, lip. 16 C3, ni-rt_ be-lu-ti-ia; Cl, 5 C2, te. 

8B1, Cl-4, ti. nirir-ta. 26 C3 inserts w. 

9 C3, uz. “BI, si, C1-4, tk-nu-Su, 27 A GAR was equal to two 


Bi, at. 


16C1, 4, hu. 


“reeds”’ or 12 cubits. 


96 


~J 


—J 


ay 


To: 


(00) 
— 


qn 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


$d ul-tu |ti-me ru-|ku-ti ’Te-bil-ti 1-ta-a- 
Sa i-ba->-ma i-na us-si-sa ab-bu %-sab- 


, 


su-t% U-ri-ib-bu._ tim-me-en-sa 

lekalla sihra sa-a-tu] a-na_ si-hir-ti-sa 
ak-kur-ma sd "Te-bil-ti ma-lak-sa us- 
tib-ma t-Se-sir Mu-sUu-Sa 


. i-na [arhi] se[-me-e t-na] t-mi mit-ga-re 


ki-rib ka-tim-ti a-sur-rak-ki-sa 60 
Sid-du 34 pitu aban sadi(c) dan-nu 
ak-si-ma ekla ul-tu ma-a-me v-se-lam- 


ma na-ba-lis %-Se-me 


la-ba-rig ti-me i-na mili kis-Sa-ti te- 
me-en-st la e-ni-si as-kup-pat &"“pi- 
rab-ba-a-ti 


hi-ra t-dan-na su-pu-uk-su 


2-li a-Sur-ru-Su— U-Sa-as- 


120+50 a-na 


e-la-ni tam-la-a t%-mal-li-ma e-lt mi-si- 


ti-ip-ki — si-ru-us-sin 
th-ti ekalli mah-ri-te t-rad-di-ma t-sa- 
an-di-la ti-sar-sa 


ekal Sin pirt “usu Yurkarinnu “mu- 
suk-kan-ni “erinnu “Surménu “burdsu 
u”’bu-ut-niekalZAG.DU.NU.TUK.A 
(ekal Sdninu la isi) a-na mu-sab 
Sarru-ti-ia t-se-pi-Sa ki-rib-sa 

wgustre?’ verint tar-bit *4¢Ha-ma-nim 
Sd ul-tu. hur-sa-a-nt_ ru-ku-d-tt. nam- 
ra-si-is ip-sal-lu-ni u-sal-ri-sa_ta-ra- 


an-Si-in 


w~daldti?’ “Surméni si-ra-a-li sd i-na 
pi-te-e uw ta-a-ri e-ri-eS ta-a-bu me-sir 
siparrt nam-ri U-sir-kis-ma %-rat-ta-a 
ba-bi-sin 


74, 


he 


78. 


wos 


80. 


81. 


up to whose side the Tebiltu river 
had come from days of old, had 
worked havoe with its foundation 
and destroyed its platform,— 


. that small palace I tore down in its 


totality. The course (that is, the 
channel) of the Tebiltu I improved 
and directed its outflow.. 


.. In a propitious month, on a favorable 


day, in its (the river’s) hidden bed, 
(for a space of) 60 (GAR) on the side, 
and 384 (GAR) on the front, I covered 
over great mountain boulders, and 
made a field rise up from the water, 
and made it like unto the dry land. 
Lest in the passing of days its 
platform should give way before the 
(floods of) high-water, I set up great 
slabs of limestone around its walls, and 
strengthened its structure (lit. up- 
heaping,—of earth) ; 

over these (slabs) I filled in the terrace 
to a height of 170 t¢pku,—I added to 
the site (lit. measurement) of the 
former palace, and widened its bul- 
warks. 

Thereon (lit. therein) I had them 
build a palace of ivory, ebony(?), 
boxwood( ?), musukannu-wood, cedar, 
cypress and spruce, the “ Palace with- 
out a Rival,’ for my royal abode. 
Beams of cedar, the product of Mt. 
Amanus, which they dragged with 
difficulty out of (those) distant moun- 
tains, I stretched across their ceil- 
ings(?). 

Great door-leaves of cypress, whose 
odor is pleasant as they are opened and 
closed, I bound with a band of shining 
copper and set up in their doors. 


82. 


83. 


84. 


85. 


86. 


87. 


88. 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


bit ap-pa-a-te tam-sil ekal 'Hat-ti sd 
i-na li-Sa-a-ni 'Amurri™ bit hi-la-a-ni 
i-Sa-as-su-su a-na mul-ta->-u-ti be-lu- 
ti-ia ti-Se-pi-sa ki-rib-sin 


IS) nésér! pi-tan bir-ki Si-ta-ki-ti 8d 
i-na 38X8,600+600 bilat éri nam-ru 
pi-ti-ik *NIN-A-GAL 


lu-% nam-ri-ri 


SU-pu-Su-ma 


u 2 dim-me si-ta-hu-ti sd 38,600+4X 
600 bilat pi-ti-ik si-par-ri sv-wb-bu-? 
a-di 2 dim-me “erint rabiiti”! eli ug-gal- 
li-e %-kin-ma dap-pi ku-lul babi-si-in 
e-mid 

ir|-bit sénu Sadi(dz)| "lamassu sd] kaspi 
si-par-ri it-ti séni Sadi(dz) lamassi sd 
abnuSadi(?) es-ki nak-lig ab-ni-ma a-na 
ir-bit-ti Sa-a-ri %-Sa-as-bi-ta Sigar-si-in 
as-mu 


as-kup-[pat %pij-i-li rab-ba-a-ti da- 
dd-me na-ki-ri ki-sit-ti kata*-ia ki-rib- 
Si-in ts-si-ha a-sur-ru-si-in V-Sa-as-hi- 
ra a-na tab-ra-a-ti v-sa-lik 


»Sar-mah-hu tam-sil *4Ha-ma-nim sa 
gi-mir rikkéce! ?! mbusin-pa-a-te isé?! 
biblat(lat) sa-di-c Ww 'Kal-di_ ki-rib-su 
hur-ru-st 1-ta-a-Sa az-ku-up 


as-St za-ka-ap sip-pa-a[-ti] ekla ta- 
mir-ti e-li-en ali 2 PI(TA-AM) a-na 
maré?’ Ninuak’ pil-ku %-pal-lik-ma 
u-sad-gi-la pa-nu-us-su-un 


1 That is, a “‘western,’’ Syrian, palace, as the next phrase clearly shows. 


82. 


83. 


84. 


86. 


87. 


88. 


97 


A portico, patterned after a Hittite! 
palace, which they call in the Amorite 
tongue a Dbit-hilani, I constructed 
inside them (the doors),? for my lordly 
pleasure. 

Hight lions, open at the knee, advan- 
cing, constructed out of 11,400 talents 
of shining bronze, the workmanship 
of the god Nin-a-gal, and exceedingly 
glorious, 

together with 2 colossal pillars whose 
copper work came to 6,000 talents, 
and two great cedar pillars, (which) I 
placed upon the lions (colossi), I set 
up as posts to support their doors. 


. Four mountain-sheep, as protecting 


deities, of silver and copper, together 
with mountain-sheep, as protecting 
deities, of great blocks of mountain 
stone, I fashioned cunningly, and 
setting them toward the four winds, 
(directions) I adorned their entrances. 
Great slabs of limestone, the enemy 
tribes, whom my hands had con- 
quered, dragged through them (the 
doors), and I had them set up around 
their walls,—I made them objects of 
astonishment. 

A great park, like unto Mt. Amanus, 
wherein were set out all kinds of herbs 
and fruit trees,—trees, such as grow 
on the mountains and in Chaldea, I 
planted by its (the palace’s) side. 
That (they might) plant orchards, 
I subdivided some land in the plain 
above the city, into plots of 2 PI 
each,* for the citizens of Nineveh, 
and gave it to them. 


For the kind of structure 


that is meant we must turn to the seventh chapter of I Kings. 


2 The portico opened on the inner court. 


3 A PI, or 60 ka, was probably a little under an acre. 


98 


89. 


90. 


ol: 


92. 


93. 


94. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


a-na be-ra-a-ti Sum-mu-hi ul-tu pa-a- te 
¢Ki-si-ri a-di ta-mir-ti Ninua* sada(a) 
u bi-ru-ti i-na ag-gul-la-te parzillr 
u-Sat-tir-ma u-Se-sir "har-ru 


"12 béru kak]-ka-ru wl-tu ki-rib *Hu- 


su-ur ma-a-me_ da-ru-ti-ti a-Sar-sa 
a-Sar-da-a ki-rib sip-pa-a-te sa-ti-na 


u-Sah-bi-ba pat-ti-is 


ul-tu sip-ru ekal be-lu-ti-ia u-kat-tu-% 
u-Sa-an-di-la ri-ba-a-ti bi-ri-e-tt su- 
ka-a-ni us-pir-du-ma t-nam-mir kima 
a-me 


bélu 
a-Si-bu-te 


[4A sSur] rabi(u) aldniP? a 
“T Stardati?! ‘Assur®* i-na 
kir-bi-sa ak-ri-ma “niké?’ tas-ri-ch-tr 
ak-ki-ma t-sat-lim kad-ra-ai 


[a-na]! dr-kat? G-me' 14-na sarrdni”"(nt) 
maré?'-ia §é 4ASSur a-na ri-é-u(m)-ut 
matt wu nisé?’ i-nam-bu-v z-kir-sus 
e-nu-ma ekallu sa-a-tu i-lab-bi-ru-ma 
[en|-na-hu 

an-hu-sa_ lu-ud-dig mu-Ssar-et 
Sti-me'-ia li-mur-ma samna lip-[su-us] 


8i-tir 


luntké k-ki a-na as-ri-su li-tir 4A sSur 
tk-ri-bi-su® 1-sum-me 


. 60484 TA-AM MU minutu mu-gar-e 


1So Bl, C1-+4. 
2 Bl,arkat. C1, 3, 4, ar-kat. 
>B1, Cl, amérl, 


89. 


20; 


ae 


92. 


93. 


94. 


MO Barf 
5Cl, 3, u. 
6C1-4, Si. 


To increase the vegetation, from the 
border of the city of Kisiri to the 
plain about Nineveh, through moun- 
tain and lowland, with iron pickaxes 
I cut and directed a canal. 

For (a distance) 14 béru® (double- 
hours) of land, the waters of the 
Khosr, which from of old sought too 
low a level (lit. place), I made to 
flow through those orchards in irriga- 
tion-ditches. 

After I had brought to an end the 
work on my royal palace, had widened 
the squares, made bright the avenues 
and streets and caused them to shine 
like the day, 

I invited Assur, the great lord, the 
gods and goddesses who dwell in 
Assyria, into its midst. I offered 
sacrifices in great numbers and pre- 
sented my gifts. 

In the days to come, whoever among 
the kings, my sons, whose name 
Assur calls to rule over land and 
people, when that palace shall have 
become old and have fallen to ruins,— 
(whoever) restoresits ruins, looks upon 
the memorial-stela with my name 
inscribed upon it, anoints it with oil, 
offers sacrifices, and returns it to its 
place, his prayers Assur will hear. 


7 C1-4, mi. 


8 The Assyrian béru, like the neo-Babylonian, was equivalent to about 3.8 miles, 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


99 


II. BUILDING RECORDS FOUND ON THE BELLINO CYLINDER, (B1)! 
(WRITTEN 702 B.C.) 


44, 


45. 


46. 


47. 


48. 


49, 


ekallu mah-ri-tu sé 360 ina ammatu 
Siddu i-na tar-st za-me-e bit 2ik-kur-rat 
80 ina ammatu rupsu i-na tar-si? bit 
na-ma-ri bit “Istar® 184 ina ammatu 
rupsu i-na tar-si bit na-ma-ri bit Kid- 
mu-rt 95 tna ammatu rupsu 


$d Sarrani?'(nz) a-li-kut mah-ri abé?'-ia 
a-na ri-mit be-lu-ti-Su-un t-Se-pi-su- 
ma la t-nak-ki-lu s-pir-sa 


'Te-bil-ti a-gu-t Sam-ru-t* sit-mu-ru 
$4 i-na na-si-Sa gi-gu-ni-e ka-bal-ti 
ali %-ab-bi-tu-ma ki-mah-hi-su-un nak- 
mu-ti® %-kal-li-mu 4Samsu(su) 


wu ul-tu timé?’® radkite?’ ti-th ekalli 
i-ba--t'-ma ina mili-sa gab-si i-na 
us-si-Sa ab-bu %-sab’-si-u %i-ri-rb®-bu 
tim-me-en-sa 


ekalla sihra(ra) Sa-a-tu a-na si-hir-ti- 
Sa ak!-kur-ma sé "Te-bil-ti ma-lak-sa 
uS-te-es-na-a ab-bu us-tib-ma %-sel-sir 
mu-su?-sa 

ki-rib ka-tim-ti a-sur-rak-ki8-sa" sap- 
la-nu kdné?! e-la-nis abné?™ g§adi(z)- 
dan-ni ittt iddi ak-si-ma ekla ul-tu 
ma-a-me t%-se-lam-ma na-ba-ligs v-tir 


44, 


45. 


46. 


47. 


48, 


49, 


1 Lines 34-43 are duplicates of Al, 63-72 (see pp 


2 Cl, om. tar-si. 7 C3, om. 

8 C1-4, [8-tar. 8 C4, bu. 
4C1+4, om. Samra. 9 C1—-4, om. 

5 Cl+4, pa-az-ru-ti. «Cl, 3, 4, a. 


6 Cl, a-me. u C3, te. 


As for the former palace which (meas- 
ured) 360 cubits on the side toward 
the enclosure of the temple-tower, 
(was) 80 cubits wide on the side 
toward the bit-namart of the temple 
of Ishtar, and 134 cubits wide on the 
side toward the bit-namari of the 
Kidmuri-temple, and 95 cubits wide 
(on the fourth side), 

which the kings who went before 
me, my fathers, had built for their 
royal dwelling, but had not beauti- 
fied its workmanship,— 

the Tebiltu-river, a raging, destructive 
stream, which at its high water, had 
destroyed the mausoleums inside the 
city and had exposed to the sun their 
tiers of coffins (lit. piled-up coffins), 
and, from days of old, had come up 
close to the palace and with its 
floods at high water had worked 
havoc with its foundation and de- 
stroyed its platform: 

that small palace I tore down in its 
totality. I changed the course of 
the Tebiltu, repaired the damage, 
and directed its outflow 

through its covered channel (bed). 
Below, reeds, above, mighty blocks of 
covered with 
asphalt, and raised up a field out of 
the waters and turned it into dry land. 


mountain-stone, I 


. 94 f). 


122 Cl-4, adds wu. 
13 C1-4, ku. 
4 C1, 3, om. 
16 C1-4, om. 


100 


id 
t 


3 | 
iS 


Cnr 
Or 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


700 ina suk-lum'rabiti(t2) Siddu 162 ina 
suk-lum rabili(tt) pitu elitu altani 217 
ina suk-lum rabiti(tc) ptiitu kablitim 
(tim) 


. 886 ina suk-lum rabiti(ti) paitu saplitu 


siti itad(US-SA-DU) "Idiglat tam-la-a 
a-mal-li-ma am-sti-uh me-si-th-ta 


la-ba-ris wmé?” i-na mili _kis-sa-ti tim- 
me-en-Ssu la e-ni-se as-kup-pat &"pi-7-la 
rab-ba-a-ti. a-sur-ru-si? %-Sa-as-hi-ra 
u-dan-nin Su-pu-uk-sut 


. mu-sar-e® Si-tir Si-mi-ia 160 ti-ip-ki 


tam-li-t_ ki-rib-Su al-tu-ur-ma_ sap-la- 
nu i-na Us-si-St e-zib ah-ra-tas 


. ar-ka-nu® si-us-ku-% tam-li-t_ ka-bit-ti 


ub-lam-ma 20 ti-ip-ki si-ir_ mah-ri-v? 
us-stp-ma 180 ti-ip-ki t-sak-ki e-la-nigs 


. tar-pa-su-v% el? sa G-me® pa-ni %-Sar-bi 


si-ir me-Si-ih-ti ekalli mah-ri-ti” v-rad- 
di-ma %-sa-an-di-la si-kit-tas 


. ekal sin pir! “usu “urkarinnu “mu- 


suk-kan-ni? “erini “Surméni® burdsi4 
u “’bu-ut-ni ekal ZAG-DI-N U-TUK- 
A (sdnina la ist) a-na mu-sab Sarru- 
ti-ia t-Se-pi-sa ki-rib-si'® 


1 CI-4, ammatusyk-lum. 

2C1-4, a-me. 

3 C1, ki-is-su-vi-8u; C2—-4, ki-su-u-Su (38a). 
4C1-4, Sa. 

505, v. adds ri-e. 

6 C5, inserts a. 

7Cl, 8, 4, €. 

81-5, eli. 


50. 


ol. 


53. 


54. 


(On a plot of ground) 700 great cubits 
on the side, 162 great cubits on its 
upper, north, front, 217 great cubits 
on its inner front, 

386 great cubits on its lower, south, 
front, along the Tigris, I filled in a 
terrace, and made a careful survey of 
it (lit. surveyed its survey). 


. That in days to come its platform 


might not be weakened by the floods 
at high water, I had its sides (lit. 
walls) surrounded with mighty slabs 
of limestone, and (so) I strengthened 
its structure. 

A stela with my name inscribed I 
wrote (and buried) 160 tipku deep 
in the terrace, and left it deep down 
in the foundation for the days to 
come. 

Later my heart urged me to make the 
terrace higher, so I added 20 tipku 
to the former altitude and made it 
180 tepku high. 


. I enlarged the area (thereof, lit. the 


width) and added to the size (lit. 
measurement) of the former palace, 
and enlarged its structure. 


. Thereon (lit. therein) I built a palace 


of ivory, ebony(?), boxwood(?), 
musukannu-wood, cedar, cypress, and 
spruce, the “ Palace without a Rival,” 
for my royal abode. 


9C1, 2, 4, 5, mu. 

10 C3, tum; 4, te. 

So also C5; Cl1-4, ekal 2"“paritu Sin piri. 

12C3, nu. 

133, adds (nu). 

14C1, 2, 4 insert dap-ra-nu. (2, ni), C3, dap-ra-a-nu. 
C1, 4, ZAG-NU-DI-NU-TUK-A. 

16 C1, 4, Sa. 


qn 
—<J 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


. “Sar-mah-hu' tam-sil §¢Ha-ma-nim &4 


gi-mir rikkéee! i*busip-pa-a-ti igsé?! 
biblat(lat) Sadi(z) wv 'Kal-di ki-rib-sv 
hur-ru-s% i-ta-a-sa az-ku-up 


as-Su za*ka-ap sip-pa-a-ti ekla ta-mir- 
ti e-li-en ali 28 PI-TA-AM a-na 
maré?'* Ninuak* pil-ku «u-pal-lik-ma 
u-sad-gi-la pa-nu-us-su-un 


a-na be-ra-a-ti Sum-mu-hi ul-tu pa-a-ti 
¢Ki-si-ri a-di_— ta-mir-ti += Ninua*® 
§add(a) uw bi-ru-tu i-na ag-gul-la-te® 
u-Sat-tir-ma U-se-Sir *har-ru 


1; béru kak-ka-ru ul-tu ki-rib *Hu-su- 
ur ma-a-me da-ru-t-ti a-Sar-Sa %-Sar- 
da-a’ ki-rib sip-pa-a’-ti Sa-ti-na %-sah- 
bi-ba pat-ti-is 


Sd Ninua®® al be-lu-ti-ia st-bat-su 
us-rab-bi_ ri-ba-ti-sul? %-sa-an'!-dil-ma 
bi-ri-e-tt WU su-ka-a-ni— us-pir-di!? 
a-nam-mir kima t-me 

a-na arkat!®timée"4 i-na® sarrdni?'(nt) 
maré?'-ia sé 4A&Sur a-na ri-é-u(m)-ut 
mati wu nisé?’ i-nam-bu-u 2i-kir-su 
e-nu-ma ekallu sa-a-tu i-lab-bi-ru-ma 
en-na-hu 

an-hu-sa_ lu-ud-dis mu-sar-e® si-tir 
Si-mi-ia li-mur-ma samna_ lip-st-us 
untké lk-ki li-tir 


4A §Sur tk-ri-bi-si i-Sim-me 


a-na_ as-ri-su 


1C3, om. hu; C5, text ri. 
2 C2, Su; C3 has ki-rib before 


57. 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


6Cl, 3, 4, a-ti. 
7Cl, v-Sar-Si-da-a. 


101 


A great park, like unto Mt. Amanus, 
wherein were set out all kinds of herbs 
and fruit trees, trees, such as grow in 
the mountains and in Chaldea, I 
planted by its side. 
That (they might) plant orchards, I 
subdivided some land in the plain 
above the city into plots, of 2 PI each, 
for the citizens of Nineveh, and gave 
it to them. 
To increase the vegetation, from the 
border of the city of Kisiri to the plain 
about Nineveh, through mountain 
and low land, with iron pickaxes I 
cut and directed a canal. 
For (a distance) of 13 bérw (double- 
hours) of land, the waters of the 
Khosr, which from of old sought too 
low a level (lit. place), I made to 
flow through those orchards in irriga- 
tion ditches. 
I increased the size (site) of Nineveh, 
my royal city, I widened its squares, 
made bright the avenues and streets 
and caused them to shine like the day. 

(Here follows the blessing as in 

Al, cf. p. 98) 


122 C{-4, add ma. 
13 C1, ar-kat; C2, dr-kat. 


‘Kal-di. 8Cl1, om. a. 4 C1-4, d-me. 
*Ci-4, 4. 9Cl, 4, -Ninua, 2, 3 add *i., 5 C1, 3, 4, a. 
4Cl, 4 insert «. 10 C3, St. 16 Cl, a. 


5Cl1, inserts ¢. 


Cl, 4, na. 


102 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


III. BUILDING RECORDS AS FOUND ON THE RASSAM CYLINDER (C1)! 
(WRITTEN 700 B.C.) 


(ae 


79. 


90. 


ole 


92. 


700 ina ammatu suk-lum  rabiti (tc) 
siddu 176 ina suk-lum rabiti(ti) pitu 
elitu iltanu 268 ina suk-lum rabiti(te) 
pitu kabliti(tc) mi-ih-rat za-me-e ad- 
man-nt ku-tal 4Is-tar 


. 883? ina suk-lum rabiti(tz) piitu kab- 


li-tum sa-ni-ti® mu-uh-hur-tt sa-a-ri 
A-mur-ri ku-tal bit zik-rat* bit 41 s-tar 


386 ina suk-lum rabiti(tt) pitu saplitu 
Situ ita4(US-SA-DU) "Idiglat tam-la-a 


a-mal-li-ma am-st-uh me-si-ih-ta® 


i-na mi-th-rat® abulli kabal ali 7i-na™ 
a-gur-ri ©" ni-i-li._ pi-si-e® a-na me-ti- 
tk be-lu-ti-ia u-Sak-bi-is_ ti-tur-ru 


mu-sar-a t-se-pis-ma li-i-ti? u da (text 
§d)-na-nu sd i-na tukulti(ti) Assur! 
béli rabi" béli-ia eli kul-lat na-ki-ri 
as-tak-ka-nu 


au mimma tp-sit e?-tip-pu-su ki-rib- 


Su8i-sat4-tir-ma_ i-na_ tim-me-en-ne 


ekal be-lu-ti-ia e-zib ah-ra-tas 


{86 


78. 


ioe 


90. 


91. 


92. 


(On a plot of ground) 700 great 
cubits on the side, 176 great cubits 
on its upper, north, front, 268 great 
cubits on its inner front ‘opposite the 
enclosure of the building back of 
Ishtar’s (temple ?) ; 

383 great cubits on the second inner 
front, facing the west (lit. west-wind), 
back of the temple tower of Ishtar’s 
temple; 

386 great cubits on the lower, south, 
front, along the Tigris, I filled in a 
terrace and made a careful survey of 
ite 


Opposite the gate within the city, I 
made my royal road pass over a 
bridge (built) of burnt brick and 
white limestone. 

I fashioned a memorial stela, had 
engraved thereon (lit. therein) the 
might and power which, with the 
help of Assur, the great lord, my 
lord, I wielded (established) over all 
enemies, 

together with every work which I 
had accomplished, and left it for all 
time to come in the foundation- 
platform of my royal palace. 


1 Except for the passages here given this is a duplicate of the Bellino Cylinder. 


? C5, 393, v. 400. 7C8, ina. 
3 C2, tum. 5 Cost. 
4 C2, 3, zik-kur-rat. 9C2, tum. 


5 This section also in D1. 
6 C2, 4, rit. 


10 C2, 3, ¢Assur. 
11 C3, 4, add (e). 


Sn OF AI 
8 C2, Su. 
14 C2, 4, Sa-a3 


15 Cf, above p. 100, ll. 50-51. 


Col. 
23% 


24. 
25. 
26. 
27. 


29. 


30. 


dl. 


32. 


33. 


34. 


30. 


36. 


of. 
38. 


39. 
40. 
41. 
42. 


43. 


44, 
45. 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


ih 


103 


A VERY FULL RECORD OF THE IMPROVEMENTS IN AND 


ABOUT THE CAPITAL (E1) 


(WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 694 B.C.) 


Vv 

[i-na t-mi-su-ma Ninua®? ma-ha-zlu 
$t-1-ru 

[alu na-ram @|Is-tar 

[Sa nap-har ki-du-di|-e clani?! 

[wu [starati?! ba]-su-% ki-rib-su 
[tim-me-en-nu da-ru-u dlu-ru-us sa-a-te 


. [Sa ul-tu ul-la a|t-ti si-tir bu-ru-wm-me 


[7s-rat-su vs-rit-ma Su-plu-t si-in-du-su 


las-ru nak-lu] sti-bat pi-ris-te 


[sa mimma Sum-su] Si-pir ni-kil-te 


[gi-mir bil-lu-di-e] ni-sir-ti LAL-GAR 


[Su-ta-bu-lu] ki-rib-su 

[sa ul-tu ull-la Sarrani?'(n2) 

[a-l}i-kut mah-ri abé?'-ia 

ul-la-nu-ti-a be-lu-ut 'ASssur** e-pu-su- 
ma 

a-ma--ru ba--u-lat 4En-lil 

ai-um-ma, i-na lib-bi-su-nu a-na sum- 
dul su-bat ali 

e-pis dirt st-te-Sur su-ka-a-ni 

wu ha-ri-e nari za-ka-ap sip-pa-a-ti 
U-2u-un-8t ul 1b-si-ma 


ul us-ta-bil ka-ras-su 


a-na ekalli kir-bi-Su kum-mu_ ri-mit 
be-lu-te 

&dé su-uh-hu-rat Si-bat-sa 

e-pis-tas la nak-lat-ma 


23. At that time Nineveh, the noble 
metropolis, 

24. the city beloved of Ishtar, 

25-26. wherein are all the meeting-places 
of gods and goddesses; 

27. the everlasting substructure, 
eternal foundation; 

28. whose plan had been designed from 
of old, 

29. and whose structure had been made 
beautiful along with the firmament 
of heaven, 

30. the beautiful (artistic) place, the 
abode of divine law, 


the 


31-33. into which had been brought all 
kinds of artistic workmanship, every 
secret and pleasant plan; 


34. where from of old, the kings 

35. who went before, my fathers, 

36. had exercised the lordship 
Assyria before me, and 

37. had ruled the subjects of Enlil; 

38. but not one among them 


over 


39. had turned his thoughts (lit. ear) 

40. nor brought his mind 

41. to widen the city’s area (lit. abode), 
to build a wall, to lay out streets, 

. or to dig a canal (and) to set out 

trees ,— 

nor to the palace therein, the royal 

abode and dwelling-place, 

whose area was too small, 

whose construction was not artistic, 


43. 


44, 
45. 


104 


Col. 
46. 
47. 
48. 
49, 


or 
— 


66. 


67. 
68. 
69. 


. na 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


V 

li-e-su ul id-da-a 
lib-bu-us ul th-su-us 
ia-a-ti. 4 Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba 
Sar kis-Sa-ti Sar “A Ssur** 


. e-pis Sip-ri Si-a-tu ki-a te-im tldna?! 


uz-ni-ia ib-si-ma_ ka-bit-tt wb- 


lam-ma 


. te-ne-sit ‘Kal-di “"A-ra-me '‘Man-na-ai 
. Ku-e a 'Hi-lak-ku 'Pi-lis-ti uw “Sur-ri 


. Sda-na ni-ri-ia la tk-nu-sui 
. as-su-ha-am-ma tup-sik-ku v-sa-as-si- 


Su-nu-ti-ma 


. il-bi-nu libitta ekallu mah-ri-tu 

. §4 860 ina ammatu siddu 

. 95 ina ammatu pitu 

. ma-ra-ku sit-ku-na-at-ma 

. su-uh-hu-rat si-bal-sa 

. dé Sarrani?'(nt) a-li-kut mah-ri abé?'-ia 


. a-na ri-mit be-lu-ti-Su-un %-Se-pi-su- 


ma 


3. la t-nak-ki-lu si-pir-sa 


. Sédé?! Sa“ ni-r-li._ pi-si-e 
. i-na °Ta-as-ti-a-te §é e-bir-tan "Idiglat 


ib-tu-ku a-na mu-kil babati?'-si-in 


a-na su-pu-us elippate”! 
ki-rib kisdti?! isé?! rabiti??® 
a-ki-ru i-na nap-har mati-su-un 


.i-na ™Airu t-mu a-dan-ni e-di-e 


pa-an Sat-tr 


1The captives mentioned in Il. 52f. 


46. 
47. 
48. 
49, 


51. 


62. 
63. 


64. 
. they! quarried in Tastiate, which lies 


66. 
67. 
68. 
69. 


70. 


. mould bricks. 
. whose dimensions were 

. 360 cubits on the side 

. and 95 cubits on the front, 

. and whose site had become too small; 
. (the palace) which the kings who 


nor had he given his energy 
nor his heart’s thoughts; 
but I, Sennacherib, 

I, king of the universe, 
Assyria, 

gave my thought and brought my 
mind 


king of 


. to accomplish this work according to 


the command (will) of the gods. 


. The people of Kaldu (Chaldea), the 


Aramaeans, the Mannai, 


. (the people of) Kue and Hilakku, 


(of) Philistia and Tyre, 


54. who had not submitted to my yoke, 
. I snatched away (from their lands), 


made them carry the basket and 
The former palace 


went before, my fathers, 
had built as an abode of royalty, 


but had not made its structure 
artistic: 
bull-colossi of white limestone, 


across the Tigris, 

as supports for their (the new pal- 
aces’) doors. 

For the construction of boats (rafts) 
they! felled mighty trees 

in the forests throughout the whole of 
their land. 

In Airu, at the regular time of the 
spring floods, 


Cole 


rap 
72. 


73. 


74. 
75. 
76. 
qT: 


78. 
29, 
80. 
81. 
82. 
83. 


84. 
85. 
86. 
87. 


88. 


89. 


90. 


co 
Rone? = 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


Vv 

i-na elippdte?’ si-ra-a-te 

a-na a-ha-an-na-a %-sib-bi-ru-ni. mar- 
$t-18 

i-na ni-bir ka-a-ri GIS-MA-GU-LA”! 


u-ti-ib-bu-t% ba-hu-la-te-Su-un 
u-sa-ni-hu v-lam-me-nu ka-ras-si-in 
i-na da-na-ni wu Sup-st-ki 

mar-si-is U-bi-lu-nim-ma 


u-Sa-as-bi-tu bdbdti?'-si-in 

'Te-bil-ti a-gu-t sit-mu-ru 

Sd ul-tu time?! arkiitir® 

ti-th ekalli t-ba--ti-ma 

i-na mili-Sa gab-st i-na Us-si-sa 

ab-bu t-sab-sui-t t-ri-ib-bu tim-me-en- 
sa 

ekalla sihra(ra) Sa-a-tu a-na si-hir-ti- 
Sa ak-kur 

Sa *Te-bil-ti ma-lak-sa 

ul-tu ka-bal-ti ali ap-ru-us-ma 


i-na ta-mir-ti ku-tal ali w-se-sir mu- 
su-sa 

i-na+GAN ma-lak mé?! 4 &pi-c-li 
rabtite?! 

at-ti kwpri ak-si-ma kandte?! a-pi 


u ku-pi-e v-sat-ri-sa eli-Su-un 


. 840 ina ammatu siddu 


onal 
. 289 ina ammatu pitu 


kak-ka-ru ul-tu ki-rib "Hu-su-ur 


. u ta-mir-ti ala 
. [k}t-ma a-haz-tim-ma lu as-ba-ta si-ir 


me-si-ah-tr 


. tam-li-i mah-ri-e lu %-rad-di-ma 


‘The captives mentioned in ll. 52f. 


105 


71-72. they! laboriously brought them? 


73. 
74, 
75. 
76. 
(we 


84. 
85. 
86. 
87. 


88. 


89. 


90. 
91. 


mwh re 


over to this side on the mighty rafts. 
As the 
the large boats 

Their crews 
strained and injured their bodies, 


they! crossed quay-wall, 


went down. 
but by might and main 


with difficulty they landed them (lit. 
brought) 


. and placed them by their doors. 
79. 
80. 
81. 
82. 
83. 


The Tebiltu, a raging stream, 

which from days of old 

had come up close to the palace, 

and with its great floods at high water 
worked havoe with its foundation 
and destroyed its platform: 

that small palace I tore down in its 
totality: 

the course of the Tebiltu 

I turned aside from the city’s midst, 
and directed its outflow into the plain 
back of the city. 

Into (the space) of half a gan of the 
water’s course, (I placed) four great 
blocks of limestone 

and covered (them) with bitumen; 
reeds of the cane-brake 

and rushes I spread over them. 

(A piece of) land, 340 cubits on the side, 


. 289 cubits on the front, 

. out (of the bed) of the Khosr, 

. and the plain (about) the city, 

. I measured (lit. seized) off according 


to plan. To the plot (lit. survey) 


. of the former palace-terrace I added 


it, 


2'The bull-colossi of 1. 64. 


106 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. VI 


6. 


(BE 
12. 
13. 
14. 


15. 


16: 


ie 
18. 
19: 
20. 
21. 


22. 
23. 
24. 


25. 
26. 
27. 
28. 


29. 
30. 


ol. 
32. 


a-na si-hir-ti-Su ina 190 ti-ip-ki ul-la-a 
1t-S1-SU 


. [lla-ba-ris timé?! i-na mili kis-sa-te 
. [t]¢m-me-en tam-li-c la e-ni-st 


_ abrun)-7-li rabtte”?! ki-su-t-st 
10. 


u-sa-as-hi-ra t-dan-nin st-pu-uk-su 


a-na 7OO i-na suk-lum rabiti(te) siddu 
au 440 i-na suk-lum rabiti(te) pitu 
Si-kit-ti_ ekalla v-tir-ma 

Su-bat-sa us-rab-bi_ ekallati?’ hurdsi 
kaspt 

siparrt ®“sandé?! &«TUR-MI-NA- 
MAR-DA 


abnunartte Sin pirt “ust Vurkarinne 


wmis-ma-kan-na “erin “Surméni 
burdsu “e-lam-ma-ku “si-in-da-a 
a-na mu-sab be-lu-ti-ia 
ab-ni-ma bit mu-tir-ri-te 

tam-sil ekal 'Ha-at-ti 


mi-ih-rit ba-ba-a-ti %-se-pis 

gustré?’ Yeri-ni “Surmént 

Sd e-ri-su-un ta-a-bu bi-nu-ut *¢Ha- 
ma-nim 

vu *4S7-ra-ra Sadé?! ellaiti?! 


u-sat-ri-sa_ e-li-sin 
daldti”’ “eri-ni “Surméni burdsi 
“si-in-da-a me-sir kaspi ert 


u-rak-kis-ma %-rat-ta-a ba-bi-sin 
i-na ba-rak-ki §d ki-rib bite papahani”! 


ap-tr bi-ir-ri_ %-pat-ta-a 
fasédati M™partti Sin piri 


6. 


and raised the whole of it to the 
height of 190 tipke. 


7-8. Lest in the passing of days the plat- 


form of that terrace should give way 
before the (floods) of high water, 


9-10. I built the facing-wall around it of 


1 
12. 
13. 
14. 


15. 
16. 


17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21. 


22. 
23. 
24. 


20. 
26. 
27. 
28. 


aah 
30. 


ol. 
32. 


great blocks of limestone, and 
strengthened its structure (lit. up- 
heaping). 

To 700 large cubits on the side 

and 440 large cubits on the front, 

I brought the size of the palace, 

and enlarged its site. A palace of 
gold, silver, 

copper, carnelian(?), breccia, 
alabaster, ivory, ebony(?), box- 
wood( ?) 

musukanni-wood, cedar, cypress, 
spruce, elammaku-wood, stndu-wood, 
for my royal dwelling 

I built and portals (‘‘door-houses”’) 
patterned after a Hittite (Syrian) 
palace 

I had constructed in place of doors. 
With (beams) of cedar and cypress, 
whose scent is pleasant, products of 
Amanus 

and Sirara, the snow-capped (lit. 
shining) mountains, 

I roofed them. 

Door-leaves of cedar, cypress, pine 
and sindu-wood, I bound with a band 
of silver and copper 

and set up in their doors. 

In the room within the building, I 
arranged (lit. opened) chambers, 

and opened corridors( ?). 
Female-colossi of marble and ivory, 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


Col. VI 


33. 


34. 
35. 


36. 
ov. 


38. 
39. 
40. 


41. 
42. 


43. 
44, 
45, 
46. 
47. 


48. 
49. 


50. 
51. 
52. 
53. 
54. 


55. 


56. 


Sd al-lu-ru na-sa-a kit-mu-sa rit-ta-sin 


bal-tu ku-uz-bu hi-it-lu-pa lu-li-e 
ma-la-a i-na bdbati?'-Sin ul-ziz-ma 


a-na tab-ra-a-te u-sa-lik 

su-lul ta-ra-a-ni §é ki-rib ba-rak-ka-a- 
ne 

e-tu-su-un t-sah-la-a 

a-me-1S us-nam-mir 

stk-kat kar-ri kas-pi wv ert 


ki-rib-sin u-Sal-me 
i-na agurri "KA sbnuy knit 
: 
us-si-ma si-el-lum ni-bi-hi 
Uu gi-mir pa-as-ki-si-in 
as-Su Ssip-rt ekalli-ca st-te-Su-ri 


a li-pit kata¢"-1a Sul-lu-me 


i-na ti-me-su-ma 4A ssur wu star! 
ra--i-mu *sangt-ti-ia 
na-bu-t Sumi-ia gis-mah-hi Yeri-ni 


Sé ul-tu Gime?! arkiite?! 1-si-hu-ma 


tk-bi-ru danmigs i-na ki-rib *°4Si-ra-ra 
. 

Sadé?! ina pu-uz-ri na-an-zu-zu 

a-Sak-li-mu-in-nt_$i-i-su-un 

Sa %"” yartitu §é i-na tar-si Sarrdni?! 

(nt) 


abé?'-1a a-na kar-ri nam-sa-ri St-ku-ru 


i-na sa-pan *4Am-ma-na-na %-sap- 
tu-ni pa-ni-su 


city names, including Balatai. 


33. 


34, 
35. 


36. 
37. 


38. 
39. 
40. 


41. 
42. 


43. 
44. 
45. 
46. 
47. 
48. 
49, 
53. 
50. 
dl. 
52. 
4. 
55. 


56. 


107 


wearing horned-headdresses(?), their 
fore-legs (lit. hands) kneeling, 
clothed with strength and vigor, 

full of splendor, I set up by their doors 
and 

made them a wonder to behold. 

The dark color of the roofing tim- 
bers in the chambers, 

I brightened (painted ?) 

and made them shine like the day. 
Clothes-hooks (pegs) of silver and 
copper 

I put up around their interior. 
With burnt-brick, KA-stone, 
lapis-lazuli, 

I adorned the walls, cornices 
and all of their copings. 

That I might accomplish the con- 
struction of my palace, 

and bring to an end the work of my 
hands, 

at that time, Assur and Ishtar, 

who love my priesthood, 

and have called me by name, 

showed me how to bring out the 
mighty cedar logs 

which had grown large in the days 
gone by, 

and had become enormously tall as 
they stood 

concealed in the mountains of Sirara. 


and 


Alabaster (marble) which in the days 
of the kings, my fathers, 

was precious enough for (inlaying) 
the hilt of a sword, 

they disclosed to me in the darkness 
of Mt. Ammanana. 


1D1 and 2 have text of ll. 45-47 preceded by C1, 77 f. (cf. p. 102) and followed by lines containing 


108 


Col. 
ae 


58. 
59. 
60. 
61. 
62. 
63. 
64. 
65. 


66. 


OT: 
68. 
69. 
70. 
cit 


78. 
10; 
80. 


81. 


82. 
83. 
84. 
85. 


. ab-ni 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


VI 

au euTUR-MI-NA-MAR-DA ma-la 
dikarunyy-zi-hal-li 

Sa la in-nam-ru ma-ti-ma 

ina °‘Kap-ri-da-ar-gi-la-a 

Sd pa-a-ti °Til-Bar-si-ip 

u-kal-lim ra-ma-nu-us 

i-te-e Ninua* i-na ir-si-ti “Ba-la-ta-ar 
ki-a_te-im tli-ma @"“pi-t-lu pi-su-u 
a-na mu--di-e in-na-mir-mMa 

Sédé”! W sa-lam mes-ri-li "partite 
1b-ba-nu-t% 


istén(en) abni 


mi-na-a-te Suk-lu-lu 


Sad 1-na 
i-na ki-gal-li ram-ni-su-nu 

§a-kis na-an-zu-zu 

flitzq-za-a-te "partite 

Sd 2i-me nu-us-su-ka 

kima ti-me na-pir-di-c nu-uwm-mu-ru 
Zu-mur-sin 


. askuppati?? &TUR-MI-NA-MAR- 


DA  sirdti?! 
ki-lal-la-an i-na Sad-di-su-un 


ab-tuk-ma 


. a-na sip-ri ekalli-ia 

. t-sal-di-da ki-rib “Ni-na-a 

. Seder! a f"'zq-za-a-te 

. aruni-1-li pi-si-e i-na lip-ta-at *Nin- 


kur-ra 

i-na ir-si-it “Ba-la-ta-ar 
u-sa--lid-ma %-sak-li-la gat-ta-su-un 
Sé ul-tu ul-la sarrdni?'(nt) abé?'!-1a 


sa-lam eri tam-sil gat-ti-su-un 


a-na su-zu-2i ki-rib ekurré?! 

1b-nu-ma i-na e-pis-ti-su-nu 
u-Sa-ni-hu gi-mir mar wm-ma-a-ni 
i-na la bi-rit uz-ni la ha-sa-as a-ma-te 


57. 


58. 
ao: 
60. 
61. 
62. 
63. 
64. 
65. 


66. 


And breccia for all kinds of great jars, 


such as had never been seen before, 
in Kapridargila, 

which is on the border of Til-Barsip, 
disclosed itself. 

Near Nineveh, in the land of Balatai, 
by decree of the god, white limestone 
was found (appeared) in abundance; 
and bull-colossi and sculptured statues 
of alabaster, 

which were carved out of one stone, 
of enormous proportions, 


67-68. towering high upon their own 


69. 
70. 
(aly 
72. 


73. 


bases; 

alabaster cow-colossi, 

whose appearance was splendid, 
whose bodies shone like the bright 
day; 

great slabs of breccia 


I fashioned and cut free on both 
sides, in their mountain, 


74-75. and had them dragged to Nineveh 


76. 
77. 


for the construction of my palace. 
The bull and cow-colossi 

of white limestone, with Ninkurra’s 
help, 


78-79. I “‘caused to be begotten,” and 


80. 


81. 


82. 
83. 
84. 
85. 


made complete as to their members. 
In times past, when the kings, my 
fathers, 

fashioned a bronze image in the like- 
ness of their members, 

to set up in their temples, 

the labor on them 

exhausted every workman; 

in their ignorance and lack of knowl- 
edge, 


Col. 


86. 
87. 
88. 


89. 
90. 


91. 
92. 


93. 


fom 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


VI 

a-na sip-ri. hi-sih-ti-su-nu 
sSamna is-ku-ru na-al-ba-as si-e-ni 
a-ki-ru_ ki-rib sadé?'-su-un 


ta-a-ti. ™ 4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba 
a-sa-rid kal mal-ki mu-di-e svp-rv 


ka-la-ma dim-me ert rabuiti?! 
ur-mah-hi pi-tan bir-ki sad ma-nam- 
ma 

la tp-ti-ku Sarru pa-ni mah-ri-ia 


VLE 
. i-na ue-nit ni-kil-te 


2. $d U-Sat-li-ma ru-bu-¢NIN-IGI-K UG 


ov 


Oo con 


i: 
12. 
15. 
14. 
15. 


16. 
Us 


18. 
Ls 
20. 
21. 


22. 


. i-na si-tul-ti ram-ni-ia 
. a-na e-pis Sip-ri St-a-tu 
. ra-bis am-tal-lik-ma i-na me-lik  te- 


me-ta 


. & me-ris ka-bit-ti-ca 

. pi-ti-ik ert t-ba-as-sim-ma 

. U-nak-ki-la nik-la-su 

. &é gis-mah-hi w a-la-mit-ta 

. “mes-ri-e 12 urmahhé?! ni-?-ru-ti 


a-di 12 sédé?! 

siriiti”! $4 Suk-lu-lu nab-ni-tu 
22 futzq-za-a-te Sd ku-uz-ba 
ul-su h-it-lu-pa bal-tu la-la-a 
kum-mu-ru $i-ru-us-sin 


ki-t te-im ili-ma zi--pi ti-ct-ti 
ab-ni-ma e-ra-a ki-rib-su as-tap-pa-ka 


ki-i pi-ti-ik 4 Siklu (TA-AM), 
u-sak-li-la nab-ni-su-un. 

Sédé”! nab-nit ert 

Sa 2 ina lib-bi za-ha-lu-wu lit-bu-su 


Sédér! *nartti 


109 


86-88. they drank oil, and wore sheep- 


89. 
90. 


Of. 
92. 


93. 


16. 
LY: 


tee 
iE 
20. 
72 


22. 


‘two of 


skins to carry on the work they 
wanted to do in the midst of their 
mountains. 

But I, Sennacherib, 

first among all princes, wise in all 
craftsmanship, 

great pillars of bronze, 

colossal lions, open at the knees, 
which no king before my time, 

had fashioned, 


. through the clever understanding 
. which the noble Nin-igi-kug had 


given me, 


. (and) in my own wisdom, 
. I pondered deeply the matter of 


carrying out that task, following the 
advice of my head (will) 


. and the prompting of my heart, 

. I fashioned a work of bronze 

. and cunningly wrought it. 

. Over great posts and cross-bars of 

. wood, 12 fierce lion-colossi _ 

. together with 12 mighty bull-colossi, 
. complete in form, 

. 22 cow-colossi, clothed 

. with exuberant strength 

. and with abundance and _ splendor 


heaped upon them,— 

at the command of the god, I built. 

a form of clay and poured bronze into 
it, 

as in making half-shekel pieces, 
and finished their construction. 
Bull-colossi, made of bronze, 
which were coated 
enamel (? gilding), 

bull-colossi of alabaster, 


with 


110 


Col. 
23. 
24. 
20. 
26. 


27. 
28. 


Au: 
30. 


ol. 
32. 


33. 


34. 
35. 
36. 


37. 


38. 
39. 
40. 
41. 


42. 
43. 
44. 
45. 
46. 
47. 


48. 


49, 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


VII 

a-di Sédé”' w% ft-za-za-a-te 

abnun1-li pi-si-e 8a ekallati?'-ia 
u-Sa-as-bi-ta Sigar-si-in 

dim-me ert sirtiti?! a-di dim-me “eri-ni 


rabtte”! bi-ib-lat **¢Ha-ma-nim 
me-sir ert U andki U-rak-kis-ma 


si-ir ug-gal-li-e ul-ziz-ma 
dap-pi ku-lul babdati?'-sin e-mid 


flit_zq-za-a-te "“paratt 
a-di /'-za-za-a-te pi-ti-tk u-ru-di-e 


Sa za-ha-lu-u lit-bu-sa wu /-za-za-a-te 


pi-tiak GU-AN-NA 

Sd nu-um-mu-ru gat-ta-si-in 

»~dim-me “ust “Surméni Veri-ni “dup- 
ra-ne 

burdsi u “si-in-da-a th-zi-it pa-sal-li 


W kas-pt si-ru-us-sin ul-ziz-ma 
Sé kum-me mu-sab be-lu-ti-ia 
e-mid hété?'-su-un 

askuppati?’ &«TUR-MI-NA-MAR- 
DA *"“nartite 

a askuppati?! ®™pi-c-li rabite?! 
a-sur-ru-sin %-Sa-as-hi-ra 

a-na tab-ra-a-te %-sa-lik 

as-Su ti-me-sam-ma mé?! di-lu-ti 
dannis tp-li-gu tar-sa-a-te stparri 
u har-ha-ri siparri t-se-pis-ma 


ki-mu-t ma-ka-a-te gis-mah-hi uv 
a-la-mit-ta 

‘op ie A A Y = Ay* Vg bd 
si-ir btiré?! us-ziz ekalldti?’ sa-ti-na 


u-Sa-lik as-me-is 


23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 


27. 
28. 


29. 
30. 


ol. 
32. 


33. 
34. 
35. 
36. 
of. 


38. 


together with cow-colossi 

of white limestone, I placed 

at the thresholds of my palaces. 
High pillars of bronze, together with 
tall pillars of cedars, 

the product of Mt. Amanus, 

I enclosed in a sheathing of bronze 
and lead, 

placed them upon lion-colossi, 

and set them up as posts to support 
their doorways. 

Upon the alabaster cow-colossi, 

as well as the cow-colossi made of 
bronze, 

which were coated with enamel(?) 
and the cow-colossi 

made of GU-AN-NA, 

whose forms were brilliant, 

I placed pillars of ebony, cypress, 
cedar, dupranu-wood, 

spruce and szndu-wood, with inlay 
of pasalla 

and silver, 


39-40. and set them up as columns in 


41. 


42. 
43. 
44. 


the rooms of my royal abode. 
Slabs of breccia and alabaster, 


and great slabs of limestone, 
I placed around their walls; 
I made them wonderful to behold. 


45-46. That daily there might be abund- 


47. 


48. 


49, 


ant flow of water of the buckets, 

I had copper cables(?) and_ pails 
made, 

and in place of the (mud-brick) 
pedestals (pillars) I set up 

great posts and cross-beams over the 
wells. Those palaces, all around the 
(large) palace, 


52. 
53. 
54. 
55. 


56. 
57. 


58. 
59. 


60. 
61. 


62. 


63. 
64. 


65. 
66. 
67. 
68. 
69. 
70. 


al: 
72. 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


a VLE 
. st-hir-ti ekalli a-na_ tab-rat kis-sat 


nisér! 


. ul-la-a ri-si-sa ekallu Sa-ni-na la t-st-u 


ni-bit-sa az-kur 
»Sar-mah-hu tam-sil §*¢Ha-ma-nim 
Sd gi-mir rikkéee! ”“sin-pa-a-te 


isé?! biblat(lat) Sadi(z) wv "Kal-di 


a-di isé?' na-as sipate?! 
ki-rib-Su. hur-ru-s% i-ta-a-sa az-ku-up 


Ninua sé ul-tu t-me pa-ni 
9,300 ina ammatu sui-bat li-me-ti-su 


diiru u Salht ul u-Se-pi-su 
a-li-kut mah-ri ma-al-ki 


12,515 a-sar ta-mir-ti li-mit ala 


si-ir me-si-th-te mah-ri-ti. %-rad-di-ma 
21,815 ina suk-lum rabiti(ti) u-kin 
man-da-tus 

§é diri-Su rabi(i) BAD-NI-GAL-BI- 
K UR-RA-SU-SU 

du-ti-ru §d4 nam-ri-ru-st na-ki-ri. sah- 
pu 

si-ar “yi-i-la tim-me-en-su ad-di-ma 
40 libittu a-kab-bir 

i-na 180 ti-ip-ki ul-la-a ri-si-s% 

a-na wr-bit-ti Sa-a-ri 15 abullé?! 


pa-nu w ar-ka i-na si-li ki-lal-la-an 
a-na e-ri-bi U a-si-e 


50. 
ol. 
52. 
53. 
54. 
55. 


56. 
57. 


58. 
59. 


111 


I beautified; to the astonishment of 
all nations, 

I raised aloft its head. 
without a Rival” 

I called its name. 

A great park, like unto Mt. Amanus, 


“The Palace 


wherein all kinds of herbs and fruit- 
trees, 

trees, such as grow on the mountains 
and in Chaldea, 

as well as trees bearing wool, 

were set out, I planted by its (the 
palace’s) side. 

Nineveh, whose site, in former days 
measured 9,300 cubits in circumfer- 
ence, 


60-61. (for which) the princes who lived 


62. 


63. 
64. 


65. 
66. 
67. 
68. 
69. 
70. 


(ale 
72. 


(went) before me had built neither 
wall nor outer-wall; 

12,515 (cubits) of the land of the plain 
around the city 

I added to its earlier site (lit. survey). 
21,815 great cubits, I made its 
circumference. 

I laid the platform of its great (inner) 
wall, Bad-nigalbi-Kurra-Shushu, 
“The Wall whose Splendor Over- 
whelms the Foe,” 

upon a limestone (foundation) 

I made it 40 bricks thick, 

and raised its top (head) to 180 t¢pkz. 
Toward the four winds (directions), 
15 gates! 

front, back and on either side, 

for entrance and egress, 


1In BM, 3330 (See King, Supplement, pp. xviii f.), written in 696 B.c., the names of the fifteen 
gates present many variants: lil-bur for li-bur of 1. 74; palé(e) for pali-ia, 4Sa-ma% for 4Samas and 
iGa-a-gal for 'Ga-gal of 1.77; 4¢I8-tar za-nin KI-KUR-BI for 4Nin-lil, ete., of 1. 79; “Am-ba-si for Am- 
ba-si of 1. 88; ¢Ur-ra mu-Sam-kit ai-bi for name in |. 89; ¢47GI-SIG-SIG mu-sam-me-th sip-pa-a-te for 
dNannaru, etc., of 1.91; abul Kirdter! for abul 4Sin of 1. 91; abul ma-as-ki-e for abul mas-ki-e of 1. 94. 


112 


Col. 
Tou 
74, 


ole 
90. 


D1 


92. 


93. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


VII 

a-sap-ta-a ki-rib-su 

li-bur issakki ¢Assur abul 4Assur sd 
cA ssur 


. sa-pi-in gi-mir na-ki-re 
76. abul ™ 4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba sad ‘Hal-zi 


. *En-lil mu-kin pali-ia abul 4Samas sa 


‘Ga-gal 


. Sad ™4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba it-tt man-zal-te 


e-rik-ki 


. kin-nt pali-su abul *Nin-lil sé *Kar- 


4Nin-lil 


. mu-se-sa-at §ér asakki abul mus-la-lum 


. du-muk as-na-an uv AN-SURIM ki- 


rib-Sa ka-ai-an 


. abul “Si-ba-ni-ba 
. ba-bi-lat hi-sib hur-sa-a-ni abul 'Ha- 


lah}-hi 


. naphar 7 abullé?! sit “Samsi 
~ mi-th-rit si-u-ti UW FSa-di-t 
. az-ku-ra ni-bit-si-in 


7. 4Adad sa-ri-ik hegalli a-na mati 


. abul *Adad sd Am-ba-si 


“Ur-ra Sa-a-gis za-ma-ni-ia? 
abul ¢Nergal sa ¢Tar-bi-si 


4‘Nannaru(ru) na-sir agi be-lu-ti-va 
abul 4Sin 

naphar 3 abullé?’ sad mi-th-rit *il- 
ta-nt 
at-ta-bi_s1i3-kir-si-in4 

1 Suggested by Mr. Geers. 
2 D1 [mu-sam]-kit ai-bi-ia. 


73. I had opened through it. 

74. “May Assur’s Viceroy Prevail,” the 
Gate of Assur of the city of Assur; 

75. “Overthrowing all Foes.” 

76. the Gate of Sennacherib, towards 
(lit. of) the land of Halzi; 

77. “Enlil, Establisher of my Rule,” the 
Gate of Shamash, toward the land of 
Gagal; 

78-79. “Sennacherib’s Rule Establish 
thou (fem.) in the Station of the 
Lance,” the Gate of Nin-lil, toward — 
the city of Kar-Ninlil; 

80. “Providing Egress for the Sick,” the 
Mushlal-Gate; 

81. “The Choicest of Grain and Flocks 
are ever within it,’’ 

82. the Gate toward the city Shibaniba; 

83. “Bringing the Products of the moun- 
tains,” the Gate toward the land 
Halahhi; 

84. total: seven gates toward the sun- 
rise, 

85. facing the south and the east. 

86. (So) I called their names. 

87. “‘Adad, Bestower of Abundance to 
the Land,” 

88. the Gate of Adad toward (the land 
of) Ambasi; 

89. “Urra, Destroyer of My Enemies,” 

90. the Gate of Nergal, toward the city 
of Tarbis; 

91. “Nannar, Guardian of my Royal 
Diadem,”’ the Gate of Sin; 

92. total: 3 gates, facing north. 


93. (Thus) I called their names. 


The Halah of II Kings 17:6 and f. ? 
D1 ye, 


4D1, Sin. 


Col. 


94. 


95. 


96. 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


VII 
4H-a mu-se-sir kup-pi-ia abul mas-ki-e 


mu-se-ri-bit mi-hir-ti da-dd-me abul 
ka-a-ri 
kat-ri-e °™Su-mu-?-an wu °™T'e-e-me 


Col. VIII 

1. ki-rib-sa ir-ru-ub abul mad-ba-ri 

2. pa-ki-da-at ka-la-ma abul ekallt. ma- 
hir-te 

3. ¢Sdr-tir. mu-Sam-kit ai-ab Sarri abul 
Ha-an-du-a-rt 

4. naphar 5 abullé?’ sé mi-th-rit %a- 
mur-re 

5. at-taz-ka-ra Su-me-sin 

6. sé Sal-hi-i BAD-NIG-ERIM-HU- 
LUH-HA 

7. mu-gal-lit za-ma-a-ni us-Se-Su ap-te- 


10. 


EL: 


12. 
13. 


14. 


15. 


16. 


Lee 


€-Ma 


. 45 GAR %-sap-pil-ma 
. U-sa-ak-sid mé”! na-ak-bi 


ki-rib 
§adi(z) dan-ni ak-si-ma 


ma-a-me  Sap-la-a-nu aban 


e-la-nigs a-di pa-as-ki-su i-na ©" pi-i-la 


rabuti?! 
a-nak-kil si-pir-st 
sé Ninua®* ali be-lu-ti-ia su-bat-su 


us-rab-bi 

ri-ba-ti-su .t-Sa-an-dil-ma_ %-nam-mir 
kima ti-me 

dir Ssal-hu-t %-se-pis-ma_ %-zak-kir 
hur-sa-nis 

e-li-en ali u Saplan ali %-se-pris kirdate?! 


ussubu (MUD-LUM-ME) Ssadi(i) a 
ma-ti-tan 


94. 


95. 


113 


“Ha, who causes my Springs to 
Flow,” the Gate of the Watering- 
places; 

“Furnishing an Entrance in Front of 
the Residences,”’ the Quay-gate; 


96+ VIII, 1. ‘‘The Gifts of the Sumu’- 


Lt. 


12. 
13. 


14. 


16. 


17, 


anite and the Temeite Enter through 
it,’ the Desert-gate ; 


. “Protector of All,” the Gate of the 


Armory ; 


. “Shar-ur, Overthrower of the Foe of 


the King,” the Handiri-gate; 


. total: 5 gates, facing west. 


. (Thus) I named them. 
. I opened up trenches for the outer 


wall, 


. Bad-nig-erim-huluhha, “That Terri- 


fies the Enemy.” 


. I dug down 45 gar and 
. reached the waters under the earth. 
10. 


In the midst of those nether waters I 
laid (lit. fastened) great blocks of 
mountain stone, 

and above, up to its coping, I care- 
fully 

built it of great lime-stone blocks. _ 
The area of Nineveh, my royal city, I 
enlarged. 

I widened its squares, and made it 
shine like the day. 


. The outer-wall I built and made it 


mountain high. 

Above the city and below the city I 
laid out parks. 

The wealth of mountain 
lands, 


and all 


114 


Col. 
18. 


i 


20. 


24. mimma_ la 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


33. 


dA. 
35. 


36. 


Ol. 


. ikke’ a 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


VIII 

kul-lat rikkée*’ 'Hat-ti *°™™mur-ri_ Sa 
ki-rib-su-un 

si-ir Sa ab-bur-ti Sd-a-ha am-ba-si 
karan sadi(2) 

kali-su-un gi-mir inib ad-na-a-te 
vsi-ir-di a-na_ ba-u-la 
az-ku-up 


. "Hu-su-ur §é ul-tu ul-la-a mé?'-sa 


. St-up-lu sab-tu-ma i-na sarrdni?'(nt) 


abéP'-ia 
18-sir-su-nu-ti-ma_ 2-tab- 


ba-ku "Idiglat-es 


. a-na be-ra-a-te Sum-mu-hi 


. ul-tu pa-a-ti *Ki-si-ri 
. mu-la-a mus-pa-lum i-na ag-gul-la-a- 


te 


. ah-ra-a t-Sse-sir "pat-tu 


mé?! si-nu-te si-ir ta-mir-ti Ninua** 
a-ki-nam-ma 

ki-rib_ sip-pa-a-te Sd-ti-na %-sah-bi-ba 
a-tab-bis 

a-na Bit-ri-e-ma-a-me ina sépa% Mu- 
us-ri Sadé(e) gir-ri as-bat-ma 


. as-ku-ma a-di °El-mu-na-kin-ni-e Sup- 


su-kig at-tal-lak 
i-na ri-e§ “Dir-41 star “Si-ba-ni-ba 


a °“Su-la nam-ba-? a-mur-ma 


énd?"-Su-nu pi-ka-a-te v-rab-bi-ma %- 
tir a-na kup-pi 
as-Su. ma-lak mé?! su-nu-ti Ssadé?! 


mar-su-tr 
as-ri pa-as-ku-tt ina ag-gul-la-tt u- 
Sat-tir-ma 


18. 


19) 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


26. 
27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


33. 


o4, 
30. 


30. 


ol. 


all the herbs of the land of Hatti 
(Syria), myrrh-plants, among which 
fruitfulness was greater than in 
their (natural) habitat, 


. all kinds of mountain-vines, all the 


fruits of (all) lands (settlements), 
herbs and fruit-bearing trees I set 
out for my subjects. 

The river Khosr, whose waters from of 
old 

took a low level and none 


among the kings my fathers, had 
dammed (confined) them as they 
poured into the Tigris ;— 


. to increase the productiveness of the 


cultivable (lit. low-lying) fields, 
from the border of the city of Kisiri, 
through the high and low (ground) 


I dug with pickaxes, I ran a canal 
(channel) ; 

those waters I brought across the 
plain (around) Nineveh, and 

made them flow through the orchards 
in irrigation-ditches. 

To Bit-rémdme, which is at the foot 
of Mt. Musri, I took the road and 
climbed up and with great difficulty 
came to the city of Elmunakinne. 
At the head of the cities of Dir- 
Ishtar, Shibaniba, 

and Suli, I saw pools and 

enlarged their narrow springs and 
turned them into a reservoir. 

To (give) these waters a course 
(through) the steep mountains, 

I cut through the difficult places with 
pickaxes and 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


Col. VIII 


38. 


39. 


40. 
41. 


42. 
43. 


44, 


45, 


46. 
47. 


48. 
49. 


50. 


51. 
52. 
53. 
o4. 
55. 
56. 


57. 


58. 


59. 
60. 


61. 


mu-su-su-un t-Se-Si-ra a-na ta-mir-ti 
Ninuaké 

"har-ra-ti-Su-un v-dan-nin ki-v 
pu-uk sadi(t) 

mé?! sd-tu-nu ki-rib-su-un t-kin-na 
ki-ma_ a-haz-tim-ma_ si-cr mé?! "Hu- 


Su- 


~ SU-Ur 


u-rad-da-a da-ri-sam 

i-na um-ma-a-te w%-Sa-as-ka-a gi-mir 
stp-pa-a-tt 

a-na kusst 1000 *zéré?’ ta-me-ra-a-ti 


e-li ali u Saplu ali %-Sd-an-kar Sat-ti- 
sam 

a-na Sup-su-hi a-lak-ti mé?! su-nu-te 
ra-gam-mu %-sab-si-ma su-su-t ki-rib- 
Sa 

as-ti-il igiré?’ Sahé?! abi 


a-tan ki-si t-na lib-bi %-mas-sir 
i-na te-im ili-ma ki-rib kirdti?’ sir sa 
ab-bur-tt 


kardnu gi-mir inbi “si-ir-du 
rikkée?’ dannis 1s-mu-hu 
»sSurménu “mis-ma-kan-na 
nap-har isé?! 1-si-hu-ma 
a-sar-ri-su pa-pa-al-lum 
ap-pa-ra-a-tt dannis 1-si-ra 
issural?! Samé(e) igiré?’ sa 
ru-u-ku 

kin-na ik-nun-ma sahé?’ abi a-tan 
ki-st 

a-rap-pi-su ta-lit-tu 

»mis-ma-kan-né “Surmanu tar-bit sip- 
pa-a-tr 

kant appardti?’ sa ki-rib "a-gam-me 
ak-sit-ma 


a-Sar-Su 


38. 


39. 


40. 
41. 


42. 
43. 


44, 


45. 


46. 
47. 


48. 


49, 


50. 


51. 
52. 
53. 
54. 
55. 
56. 


57. 


58. 


59. 
60. 


61. 


115 


directed their outflow on to the plain 
of Nineveh. 

I strengthened their channels, heaping 
up (their banks) mountain-high, 

and brought those waters into them. 
Following (my) plan, I added 


them to the Khosr’s waters forever. 
I had all of the orchards watered in 
the hot (season). 

In winter, a thousand fields of 
alluvium, 

about and below the city, I had them 
enclose (?) every year. 

To arrest the flow of these waters, 

I made a swamp and set out 


a cane-brake within it. Jgiru-birds, 
wild swine (lit. swine of the reeds), 
beasts of the forest, I let loose therein. 
By the command of the god, within 
the orchards, more than in their 
(native) habitat, 

the vine, every fruit-bearing tree, 
and herbs throve luxuriously. 

The cypress and musikannu-tree, 

all kinds of trees, grew large and 
sent out many shoots(?). 

The cane-brakes developed rapidly 
(mightily) ; 

the birds of heaven, the zgiru-birds, 
whose home is far away, 

built their nests; the wild-swine 
and beasts of the forest 

brought forth young in abundance. 
The mustkannu-tree and the cypress, 
the product of the orchards, 

the reeds of the brakes which were in 
the swamp, I cut down and 


116 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. VIII 


62. 
63. 
64. 


jiay 


hh 


78. 


86. 
87. 
88. 


a-na Sip-ri hi-sih-ti ekallati?® 
be-lu-te-ia lu e-pu-us 

is-su na-as Si-pa-a-ti ib-ku-mu im-ha- 
su su-ba-ti-1s 


. ul-tu sip-ri ekalli-ia v-kat-tu-% 

. *Asgur bélu rabii(%) tldni?! a UT starati?! 
. a-si-bu-ut "A ssur** 

. i-na kir-bi-sa ak-ri-ma 

. “nike?! tas-ri-ih-te ak-ki-ma 

. U-Sat-lim kat-ra-ai 

. Saman “sir-di u hi-bi-is-tr 


. 8d kirdti?! sir Sa ab-bur-ti 


. t-sal-ka-a a-na ru-us-te 


. i-na_ tas-ri-it’ ekalli Sad ba-hu-la-te 
(v. t2) mati-ia 
. t-Sa-as-ka-a muh-ha-si-in (v. Su-un) 


kardnu du-us-si-pu sur-ra-si-in (v. Su- 
un) am-kir 

ai-me i-na_ sarrdni?! 
(v. adds [nz]) méré?'-ia 


Sd 4ASSur a-na ri-é-u(m)-ut mati wv 


a-na_ ar-kat 


niséP! 


. i-nam-bu-% (Vv. wu) 2i-kir-su 
80. 
81. 
82. 
83. 
84. 
85. 


e-nu-ma dtiru sa-a-tu 
1-lab-bi-ru-ma en-na-hu 
an-hu-us-su_ lu-ud-dis 
musaré(e) si-tir Si-me-ia 
li-mur-ma samna lip-su-us 
luntiké 
(v. lu-tir) 

4A Ssur W 4 s-tar 


lik-ki a-na_ as-ri-su— li-tur 


tk-ri-bi-Su 1-sim-mu-% 
arku Abu li-mu ™Ilu-ttti-ia 
¢Di-mas-ka 


amsa-kin 


62-63. used them as desired, in the build- 


64. 
65. 
66. 
67. 
68. 
69. 
70; 
“1. 
72. 


73. 
74. 


75. 


76. 


L0G: 


ing of my royal palaces. 

The wool-bearing trees they sheared, 
and wove (the wool) into garments. 
When I had made an end of building 
my palace, 

Assur, the great lord, the gods and 
goddesses 

who dwell in Assyria, 

I invited therein and 

offered countless sacrifices, 

and gave (them) presents. 

Oil of the fruit-tree (the olive) and 
products 

of the gardens (more than these trees 
bore in their native habitats) 

I brought them in abundance. 

At the dedication of the palace, 


I drenched the foreheads of the people 
of my land with wine, 
with mead I sprinkled their hearts. 


In days to come, among the kings 
my sons, 


78-79. (the prince) whose name Assur 


80. 
81. 
82. 
83. 
84. 
85. 


86. 
87. 
88. 


shall call to rule land and people,— 


when that wall 

shall have become old and weak, 
may he repair its ruins, may he 

look for the written memorial 

of my name, may he anoint it with oil, 
may he offer sacrifice, and restore it 
to its place. 

(Then) Assur and Ishtar, 

will hear his prayers. 

The month Ab, the eponymy of 
llu-ittia, governor of Damascus. 


. *Be-lit ildni?! 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


117 


V. UNDATED BULL INSCRIPTION (11)! 


. Ekal ™¢Sin-ahé?'-eriba (v. eri-ba) Sarru 


rabi Sarru dan-nu Sar kissate sar 
‘Assur’? Sar kib-rat irbitte(tc) mi-gir 
alan! rabite?® 


. lu-li-mu ir-sii mal-ku pit-ku-du_ri-é- 


um ba-hu-la-ti mut-ta-ru-% nise?" rap- 
§a-a-ti_ a-na-ku 


be-lit nab-ni-ti i-na 
Sasurrt a-ga-ri-in-ni_ a-lit-ti-ia ki-nigs 


ippalsa-an-ni-ma t-sab-ba-a 


. nab-ni-ti a *NIN-IGI-KUG id-di-na 


kar-si (v. Su) rit-pa-su  Sun-na-at 
apkalli A-da-pa 1s-ru-ka pal-ka-a ha- 
sts-su 4A Ssur abu ildni?! 


. gi-mir sal-mat kakkadi v%-sak-nis se- 


pu-t-a a-na ri-é-u(m)-ut mati Ww nisée?! 
ul-la-a ri-si-va id-di-na “hattu i-Sar-tu 
mu-rap-pi-sat 


. ma-a-ti “kakku la pa-du-% a-na sum- 


kut za-%1-ri U-Sat-mi-th rit-tu-ti-a i-na 
ti-me-su-ma te-ne-sit na-ki-ri ki-sit-tt 
kata*“-1a 


. dup-sik-ku t-sa-as-si-Su-nu-ti-ma tl-bi- 


nu libitta ekallu kabal ali §4°Ni-na-a? $a 
3860 ina ammatu siddu 95 ina ammatu 
putu 


. ma-ra-ku sit-ku-na-at-ma su-uh-hu-rat 


Su-bat-sa Sad Sarrdni”’ a-li-kut mah-ri 
abé?'-ia be-lu-ti-Su-un 
U-Se-pi-S-ma 


a-na_ ri-mit 


ui 


1 Undoubtedly published late in the king’s reign. 


. wise 


“Master Adapa’s. 


Palace of Sennacherib, the great 
king, the mighty king, king of the 
universe, king of Assyria, king of the 
four quarters (of the world); favorite 
of the great gods; 

sovereign, provident prince, 
shepherd of peoples, ruler of wide- 
spread nations, am I. 


. The queen of the gods, the goddess 


of procreation, looked upon me with 
favor (while I was still) in the womb 
of the mother who bore me, and 
watched over 


. my conception, while Ea provided a 


spacious womb, and granted (me) 
keen understanding, the equal of 
Assur, father of 
the gods, brought in submission to 
my feet 


. the whole race of blackheaded men, 


raised aloft my head to be ruler of 
land and people, gave me a righteous 
scepter which enlarges 


. my land and put into my hands an 


unsparing sword for the overturn of 
my enemies. At that time, I made 
the enemy population which 
hand had conquered 


my 


. carry the basket (do forced labor) 


and mould bricks. The palace inside 
the city of Nineveh, which extended 
360 cubits on the side, 95 cubits on 
the front, | 


. and whose site had become too small, 


which the kings who went before, 
my fathers, had built for their royal 
abode, 


2F1, Ninuaki 3 Fl, Su. 


118 


+) 


10. 


Lah 


12. 


13. 


14. 


16. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


la ti-nak-ki-lu Si-pir-sa sédé lamasi 
Sd aban pi-t-li pi-si-e t-na °T'a-as-ti-a- 
te ib-tu-ku a-na mu-kil babdate?'-st-in4 


velippati?’ ka-rib 
~kisatiP! isé?' rabite?’ u-ki-ru i-na 
nap-har matdtr?'-Su-nu? i-na v7" Atru 
a-mu a-dan-ni e-di-e pa-an Ssat-tr 


a-na = Sti-pu-us 


9. 


10. 


but had not beautified :—bull-colossi 
of white limestone, they® fashioned in 
the city of Tastiate to flank their (the 
palaces’) doors. 

For the construction of boats (rafts) 
they felled mighty trees in the forests 
throughout the whole of their land. 
In Airu, at the time of the regular 
spring floods, 


i-na “elippdate?! si-ra-a-ti a-na a-ha-an- 11. they laboriously brought them over to 
na-a %-sib-bi-ru-mi mar-si-ts i-na “ni- this side on the mighty rafts. As 
bir ka-a-ri -MA-GU-LA?®! ti-ti-ib-bu-t they crossed the quay-wall, their 
(v. u) large boats went down. 
ba-hu-la-ti-su-un %-Sa-ni-hu t%-lam- 12. Their crews strained and injured their 
me-nu ka-ras-sin i-na da-na-ni % Sup- bodies, but by might and main 
Si-ki_ mar-si-ts %-bi-lu-nim-ma with difficulty they landed them 
u-sa-as-bi-tu  babdte?'-si-in "Te-bil-ti 18. and placed them by their doors. 
a-gu-% Ssit-mu-ru Sd sul-tu Vim?! The Tebiltu, a raging stream, which 
rikate?’ ti-ch ekall from days of old had come up close to 
the palace 
i-ba->-ti-ma i-na mili-Sa gab-si w-ri- 14. and with its great floods at high 
ib’-bu tim-me-en-Sa ekalla sthra(ra) water, had destroyed its foundation- 
Sa-a-tu a-na si-hir*-ti-sa ak-kur platform:—that small palace I tore 
down in its totality.® 
. && *Te-bil-ti ma-lak-sa us-te-es-na-a 15. The course of the Tebiltu I changed; 
u-Se-Sir mu-su-sa ki-rib a-sur-rak-ki-sa I directed its outflow through its low- 
Sap-la-nu kdné?! e-la-ngs idda water channels; below, reeds, above, 
bitumen (were laid) 
at-ti >" pi-i-li rabtite?’ dun-nu-nis ak- 16. and (with) great blocks of lime-stone 
si<-ma>454 ina ammatu siddu (GID- I covered it over good and strong. 
DA) 289 ina ammatu rupsu ekla ul-tu (A tract) 454 cubits on the side, 
ma-a-me 289 cubits in width, I raised up out 
of the water (in the form of) a 
field 
1F 1, din. aT Le reo 5 The captives mentioned in I. 6. 
2F 1, mati-su-un, E2, matdti-su-un. 4¥F1, hi-ir. 


6 After losing himself in a maze of dependent clauses, Sennacherib is now back at the point where 
he started in the middle of line 7. 


Li 


18. 


19; 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


u-Se-lam-ma na-ba-lig %-tir tar-pa-su-% 
eli Sa (v. 8d)! G-me pa-ni %-Sar-bi si-ir 
me-si-ih-ti ekalli mah-ri-ti t-rad-di-ma 


i-na 190 ti-ip-ki ul-la-a ri-se (v. 8t)?-s% 
(v. Su) ana’ la-ba-rig t-me (v. timé?')4 
i-na (v. ina) mili kis-Sa-ti (v. te) tim- 
me-en-st, la e-ni-se 

abnun? 1-2 rabtitr” 'ki-su-su U-Sa-as-hi-ra 
u-dan-ni-na st-pu-uk-su a-na 914 ina 
suk-lum rabitd(t2)®> siddu 


a 440 ina suk-lum rabiti(te)® pitu s- 
kit-ti ekalli v-tir-ma su-bat-sa us-rab- 
bi ekal eT UR-MI-NA-MARDA® 
abnunaritu sin pire “ush “urkarinnu 
»mes-md-gan-na  “erini™ “surméntr 
burasi “e-lam-ma-ku® a-na mu-sa-ab 
(v. sab)® 


be-lu-ti-ia ab-ni-ma Dit ap-pa-a-tr® 


tam-sil ekal 'Ha-at-ti mi-ih-rit ba-ba-a- 


ti vi-Se-pis “gustr é?! “eri-ni 


~Surmént §é 14-ri-su-un ta-a-bu bi-nu- 
ut *¢Ha-ma-nim *4Si-ra-ra_ sadé (e; 
v. »®) elliti?’ w-sat-ri-sa__e-la-si-in 
(v. Sin)? 

~daldte?! “ert-ni “Surmént burdsi me- 
sir kaspi (KI-SAG) w ert t-rak-kis-ma 
u-rat-ta-a ba-bi-sin 1-na ba-rak-ki 


1So also E2. 

2So also Fl and E2. 

3 ¥1 omits from here to I. 19, ana 914. 
4So also E2. 

5 Fl, tim. 


6 F1, ekalldter! hurdsi kaspi siparri enusandu 


abnuT UR-MI-NA-MARDA. 


Lice 


18. 


19. 


20. 


ZAM 


22. 


23. 


24. 


119 


and turned it into dry-land. I en- 
larged the extent (of the available 
palace area) over that of former days, 
and added it to the site (survey) of 
the former palace. 

I raised its height (head) to 190 
tipku. Lest in the passing days its 
platform should give way before 
the (floods) of high water, 

I built a facing wall around it 
of great blocks of limestone and 
strengthened its structure. To 914 
great cubits on the side . 

and 440 great cubits on the front, I 
brought the size of the palace and 
enlarged its site. A palace of breccia, 
marble, ivory, ebony(?), box-wood, 
musukannu-wood, cedar, cypress, 
spruce, elammaku-wood, for my royal 
abode 

I built and portals, patterned after a 
Hittite!® palace, I had constructed in 
place of the doors; with beams of 
cedar (and) 

cypress, whose scent is pleasant, 
products of Amanus and Sirara, the 
snowcapped (lit. shining) mountains, 
I roofed them. 

Door leaves of cedar, cypress and 
spruce I bound with a band of silver 
and copper and set them up in their 


doorways. In 
TFPI, eri-ni. 

8F1 adds ~si-in-da-a. 
9So also F1. 

10R1, mu-tir-ri-te. 
FI, e 


12 So also F1 and E2. 
13 That is, Syrian. 


120 


25 


26. 


27. 


28. 


30. 
ol. 
32. 
33. 
4. 
35. 
36. 
oO”. 
o8. 
39. 


40. 


41. 


42. 


. Sd ki-rib biti papahdni?'(ni; 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


PA- 
PAH-MES-ni) ap-ti bi-ir-ri_ %-pat- 
ta-a Slamassé?! &"“nartitu sin pirt 


$a il-lu-ru na-sa-a kit-mu-sa rit-ta-sin 
bal-tu ku-uz-bu hi-it-lu-pa lu-li-e ma- 
la-a 

i-na babdte?'-si-in(v. sin)  ul-ziz!-ma 
a-na tab-ra-a-ti %-sa-lik su-lul ta-ra- 
a-nt 8d ki-rib 


ba-rak-ka-a?-ni_ e-tu-su-un %-Sah-la-a 


ti-me-is us-nam-mir sik-kat  kar-ri 


kas-pt 


. au ert ki-rib-sin t-Sal-me i-na agurri 


abnuky A erunknt us-si-ma 

si-al3-lum 

ni-bi-hi 

wu gi-mir pa-as(v. as)-ki-sin 

as-su Sip-rt ekalli-ia 

Sti-te-Su (v. &)4-ri U li-pit katat-1a 
Sul-lu-me i-na ti-me-su (v. &%)4 

44 SSur u 4Ts-tar ra-i-mu 
Sangi-ti-ia na-bu-@ Sumi-ia 
gis-mah-hi “eri-ni Sa ul-tu wmé?! 


rikite?’ i-si-hu-ma tk-bi-ru dannis 


a-na ki-rib **4Si-ra-ra §ad-di-t 


1-N@ PUu-UZ-1l NA-AN-ZU-ZU 
u-Sak-li-mu-in-ni_$i-i-su-un 


1F1, zi-iz. 2 F1, om. 


25. 


27 


28 


29. 


30 


ol. 
32. 

33 
34. 
35. 
30. 
37. 
38. 
39. 


40. 


41— 


8 F 1, el. 


the room within the building, I 
arranged (lit. opened) chambers, and 
opened corridors(?). Female colossi 
of marble and ivory, 


. wearing horned head dresses(?), their 


fore-legs (lit. hands) kneeling, clothed 
with strength and vigor, full of 
splendor, : 

I set up by their doors and made them 
a wonder to behold. The dark color 
of the roofing timbers in 


the chambers, I brightened (painted ?) 
and made them shine like the day. 
Clothes-hooks (pegs) of silver 

and copper I put up around their 
interior. With burnt brick, KA- 
stone and lapis-lazuli I adorned 

the walls, 

cornices, 

and all their copings. 

That I might accomplish the con- 
struction of my palace, 

and bring to an end the work of my 
hands, 

at that time, Assur and Ishtar, 

who love my priesthood, 

and have called me by name, 
showed me how to bring out the 
mighty cedar logs 

which had grown large in the days 
gone by, 

and had become enormously tall as 
they stood concealed in the mountains 
of Sirara. 

48. Alabaster (marble) which in the 
days of the kings, my fathers, 

was precious enough for (inlaying) 
the hilt of a sword, 

4So also F1. 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


43. Sd %"“paritu sd i-na tar-si Sarrdni?™ 
44. abé?'-ia a-na kar-ri nam-sa-ri si-ku-ru 
45. i-na sa-pan *4A m-ma-na-na t-sap-tu- 
ne 
46. pa-ni-Su2 & " TUR-MI-NA- 
MAR-DA_ ma-la 
47, kerpathyr-zi-gal-li sad la in-nam-ru ma- 
ti-ma 
48. i-na ‘Kap-ri-da-ar-gi-la-a §a(v. §4) pa- 
a-ti °Til-bar-si-ip 
49. u-kal-lim ra-ma-nu-us 7i-te-e Ninua** 
i-na tr-st-it 
50. ‘Ba-la-ta-a ki-i te-im ili-ma &"“pi-i-lu 
51. pi-su-t a-na mu-?-di-e in-na-mir-ma 
4sédé 
52. 4lamassé?"’ wu  gsa-lam = mes-ri-e®-ti 
abnunarutu 
53. [Sd]* i-na istén(en) abni ib-ba-nu-% 
mi-na-a-ti [Suk-lu-lu]* 
No. 2 
1. i-na ki-gal-la 
2. ra-ma(v. ram)*-ni-su-nu sa-kis 
3. na-an-zu-zu / !“'za-za-a-tt 
4, %unaritu Sd(v. Sa) 2i-1-me 
5. nu-us-su-ka kima t-me na-pir-di-e 
6. nu-um-mu- TU Zu - mur - Si -7in® 
askuppdati?! 
7. e%uTUR-MI-NA-MAR-DA si-ra- 
a-ti ab-ni 
8. ki-lal-la-an (v. ki-la-ld-an) i-na Sad- 
di-su'-un ab-tuk-ma 
9. a-na sip-ri ekalli-ia u-sal-di-da 
10. ki-rib *Ni-na-a’ sédé-lamassé”! rabiite”! 
ll. wu’ '“za-za-a-li "pi--li_ pi-si-e 
1F1, adds (ni). $F 1, om. 
2F1, Si. 4So F1. 


121 


they disclosed to me in the darkness 
of Mt. Ammanana, 

and breccia (used) for all kinds of 
great jars, 

such as had never been seen before, 


in Kapridargila, 
which is on the border of Til-Barsip, 
disclosed itself. 

49. Near Nineveh, in the land of Balata, 


50. by decree of the god, white limestone 
51. was found (appeared) in abundance; 
52. and bull-colossi and _— sculptured 
statues of alabaster, 
538. which were carved out of one stone, 
of enormous proportions, 
1-2. towering high upon their own 
bases; 
3. alabaster cow-colossi, 
4, whose appearance was splendid, 
5. whose bodies shone like the bright 
day; 
6. great slabs of breccia 


7. I fashioned 


8. and cut free on both sides, in their 
mountain, 

9. and had them dragged to Nineveh 
for the construction of my palace. 

10. The bull and cow-colossi 

11. of white limestone, 

5 So also F1. FL, Sts 

SFL, fn. 31, Ninua* 


122 


No. 
ia 


13. 


14. 


16. 


17 


18. 


19: 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


26. 


27. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


2 
i-na_ ltp-ta-at *NIN-KUR-RA _ 1-na 
(v. ina) ir-si-it 
eBa-la-ta-ai u-sa--lid-ma_ %-sak-li-la 
gat-ta-Su-un Sd ul-té(v. tu)! ul-la 
Sarrdni?!(ni)? abé?'-ia 

. sa-lam ert tam-sil gat-ti-su-un a-na 
Su-zu-2t ki-rib 
ekurrati?! ib-nu-ma ina(v. i-na)! 
e-pis-ti-Su-nu t-Sa-ni-hu gi-mir 
mar é?? um-ma-a-ni i-na la bi-rit uz-na 
la ha-sa-as 
a-ma-tt a-na Ssip-ri hi-sth-ti-Su-nu 
Samna 18-ku-ru 
na-al-ba-as si-e-nt v-ki-ru ki-rib sad é?'- 


Su-un 


ia-a-ti "4 Sin-aheé?'-eri-ba’ a-sa-rid kal 
mal-ke 

mu-di-e sip-rt ka-la-ma dim-me ert 
rabite?’ ur-mah-hi 

[p2|*-tan bir-ki $4 ma-na-ma la ip-ti-ku 
Sarru pa-ni mah-ri-ia 


[2-nal* wze-ni ni-kil-tt sd w-sat-li-ma 
ru-bu-% (v. u%)§ 
NIN-IGI-KUG i-[na s]‘-tul-tt ram- 


ni-1a 


. a-na e-pis sip-ri Su-a-tu ra-bis am-tal- 


lik-ma i-na me-lik te-me-ia Ww me-ris 
ka-bit-ti-ia 


pi-ti-tk ert u-ba-as-sim-ma t-nak-ki-la 
nik-ldé-su sad gis-mah-hi 
vmes-r-e 


\ 


wu a-la-mit-ta 


12 ur-mah”! ni--ru-ti a-di 12° ¢sédé- 
lamassé?! striite?’ $4 Suk-lu-lu nab-ni- 
tu 22 f'zq-za-a-te (v. ti)® 
1So also F1. 

2F1, om. 


3 F 1, eriba. 


4So also F1. 


12. 


13. 


14. 


15. 


16. 


Lr 


18. 


19) 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 


27. 


with Ninkurra’s help 


I “caused to be begotten’’ and made 
complete as to their members. 

In times past, when the kings, my 
fathers, 

fashioned a bronze image in the like- 
ness of their members, 

to set up in their temples, 


the labor on them exhausted every 
workman; 

in their ignorance and lack of knowl- 
edge, 

they drank oil, and wore sheep-skins 
to carry on the work they wanted to 
do in the midst of their mountains. 
But, I, Sennacherib, first among all 
princes, 

wise in all craftsmanship, great pillars 
of bronze, 

colossal lions, open at the knees, 
which no king before my time had 
fashioned ,— 

through the clever understanding 


which the noble Nin-igi-kug had 
given me, 

(and) in my own wisdom, I pondered 
deeply the matter of carrying out that 
task, following the advice of my head 
(will) and the prompting of my heart 
I fashioned the work of bronze and 
cunningly wrought it. Over great 
posts and cross-bars of wood, 

12 fierce lion-colossi together with 12 
mighty bull-colossi, complete in form, 
22 cow-colossi 


5F1 has ¢NIN-IGI-KUG. 
6So Fl. 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


No. 2 


28. 


29. 


30. 


dl. 


32. 


33. 


34. 


35. 


36. 


37. 


Sd ku-uz-bu w ul-su hi-it-lu-pa_ bal-tu 
la-la-a kum-mu-ru— si-ru-us-sin ki-t 
te-im ili-ma 


2i--pt ti-it-tr ab-ni-ma e-ra-a ki-rib-su 
(v. &) as-tap-pa-ka ki-¢ pi-ti-ck } siklu 
(TA-AM) %-Sak-li-la 


nab-ni-su-un ‘4sédé-lamassé?! nab-nit 
ert Sé 2 ina (v. i-na) ldb-bi za-ha-lu-% 
lit-bu-sul 4sédé-lamassé?! 

abnunaritu a-di sédé-lamassé?! wt "“za- 
za-a-ti ®"“pi-i-li pi-si-e Sd ekallati?'-1a 
u-sa-as-bi-ta 

Sigar-si-in. dim-me ert striite?’ a-di 
~dim-me rabiite?’ —bi-zb-lat 
Sad a-ma-nim me-sir ert t-rak-kis-ma 


~eri-nt 


si-ar ug-gal-li-e ul-eiz-ma_ dap-pi 
ku-lul babdte?'-sin? e-mid f '“za-za-a-ti 
abnunaritu a-di ‘ “za-za-a-tr 


pi-ti-ik u-ru-di-e sad za-ha-lu-u’ lit-bu- 
Sault “za-za-a-ti pi-ti-ik GU-AN-NA 
Sd nu-um-mu-ru gat-ta-sin 

vdim-me “ust “Surmané” erini(v. ert- 
ni) [’dup-ra-ni burdsi Ww “si-in-du? 
th-zi-1t pa-sal-li uw kas-ptr 


si-ru-us-sin ul-ziz-ma sd kwm-me mu- 
Sab be-lu-ti-ia e-mid “hittdte?'-su-un 
askuppati?’® %TUR-MI-NA-MAk- 
DA &™nartitu 


a askuppati?! &pi-<-li rabtite?! a-sur- 
ru-sin(v. Si-in) wt-Sa-as-hi-ra a-na 
1H, St. 4So F1. 
Vt 5F1, da-a. 


* FI, u. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


dl. 


32. 


33. 


34. 


35. 


36. 


37. 


123 


clothed with exuberant strength and 
with abundance and splendor heaped 
upon them,—at the command of the 
god 

I built a form of clay and poured 
bronze into it as in making half- 
shekel pieces and finished their con- 
struction. 

Bull-colossi, made of bronze, two of 
which were coated with enamel( ?),’ 
bull-colossi of alabaster, 

together with cow-colossi of white 
limestone, I placed at the thresholds 
of my palaces. 

High pillars of bronze, together with 
tall pillars of cedars, the product of 
Mt. Amanus, I enclosed in a sheath- 
ing of bronze and lead, 

placed them upon lion-colossi and 
set them up as posts to support their 
Upon the alabaster cow- 
colossi as well as the 
made of bronze, 

which were coated with enamel( ?) 
and the cow-colossi, made of gu- 
an-na, whose forms were brilliant, 
I placed thereon, pillars of ebony, 
cypress, cedar, dupranu-wood, pine 
and sindu-wood, with inlay of pasalli 
and silver 

and set them up as columns in the 
rooms of my royal abode. Slabs of 
breccia and alabaster, 


doors. 
cow-colossi 


and great slabs of limestone, I 
placed around their walls; I made 
6F1, as-kup-pa-a-ti. 

7 Or gilded? 


12 


fol 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


No. 2 


38. 


39. 


40). 


4]. 


42. 


43. 


44. 


tab-ra-a-te! u-Sa-[lik as-si t-mi-sam- 
ma mé|P? 
di-lu-#-ti —rabtitt: DA-LUM)ip-li-qu 
tar-sa-a-ti siparrt & har-ha-ri. stparrv 
ul-Se-pis-ma] — ki[-mu-t — ma-ka-a-ti 
gis]?-mah-hi 

biiré?’ = -us-202z 
u-Sa-lik —as-me-ts 
tab-rat kas-sat 


a  a-la-mit-ta 
ekallati”! 


st-hir-te 


si-ir 
Sa-li-na 

ekalla 

niséP' yl-la-a 


a-na 


ri-si-Sa ekallu Sd Sa-ni-na la 1-su-% 
(v. wu?) ni-bit-sa az-kur “Sar-mah-hu 
tam-sil Sa 
rikkée! ”usin-pa-a-ti isé?! 


Sad Ta-ma-nim gi-mir 


biblat(lat) Sad-di-i wu 'Kal-di_ ki-rib- 
Su(v. S$) hur-ru-su(v. st)? 7-ta-a-sa 
az-kup a-na be-ra-a-ti Sum-mu-hi ul-tu 
[pal-a-tt *Ki-si-ri. a-di 


ta-mirt-ti Ninuak® sadd(a) i-na ag-gu- 
u-sal-tir-ma 
ti-Se-Mir thar-ru béru kak-ka-ru ul-tu 
ki-rib 


la-a(v. om.)*-t¢ parzilla 


"Hu-su-ur ma-a-me da-ru-t-li a-Ssar-sa 
ki-rib tr) 
Sa-ti-na %-Sah-bi-ba pat-ti-is a-na Sup- 
Su-uh 


u-sar-da-a be-ra-a-te(v. 


a-lak-ti mé”! &4 (v. Sa).“kiraté?! a-gam- 
su-su-t — ki-rib-sa 
as-ti-il igiré?’ sahé?’ “abi a-tan 


mu u-sap-si-ma 


dah, ve 
2So also F1. 


$F1, om. 


4¥1, mar. 


them wonderful to behold. That 
daily there might be an abundant flow 
of water of the buckets, 


38.-39. I had copper cables(?) and pails 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44. 


made 


and in place of the (mud-brick) 
pedestals (pillars) I set up great 
posts and cross-beams over the wells. 
Those palaces, all around the (large) 
palace, I beautified; to the astonish- 
ment of all nations, I raised aloft 
its head. ‘The Palace without a 
Rival,” I called its name. I set 
out a great park, like unto Mt. 
Amanus, wherein were all kinds of 
herbs and fruit-trees, trees, such as 
grow on the mountains and in Chal- 
dea. To increase the productiveness 
of the cultivable (lit. low-lying) 
fields, from the border of the city 
of Kisiri 

to the plain of Nineveh, I cut through 
the hills (mountains) with iron pick- 
axes, ran a canal over [14] double- 
hours of ground, from the place 
where 

the Khosr lets down its ancient waters 
too low (for irrigation), (and) I 
made (the water) flow through those 
fields in irrigation ditches. To arrest 
the 

flow of the water through (lit. of) 
those orchards, I made a swamp and 
set out a cane-brake therein. 
birds, wild-swine, beasts 


Igiru- 


5 F1, cNi-na-a. 


No. 
45. 


46. 


47. 


48. 


49. 


50. 


ol. 


52. 


53. 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


2 

a-tan ki-i-si i-na lib-bi t-mas-sir i-na 
te-im ili-ma ki-rib “kirdte?’ kardnu 
gi-mir inib “si-cr-du wu rikkée?! dannis 
(MA-GAL) 
is-mu-hu “’surméni “mes-md-gan-na 
nap-har isé?' i-si-hu-ma_ wt-sar-ri-su 
(v. &%)! pa-<pa>*-al-lum_ ap-pa-ra-a- 
ti dannis(MA-GAL) 
samé(e) 

agit kin-na tk-nun-ma sahé “kane 
a-tan ki-i-si t-rap-pi-su ta-lit-tu “’mes- 


1-Si-ra_— issur 


md-gan-na “Surméni tar-bit svp-pa-a-te 
kan 


appardte”’ sad (v. Sa) ki-rib "a-gam-me 
hi-sah-ti 
ekallate?’ be-lu-ti-ia lu e-pu-us* ul-tu 
SUp-10 

ekalli-ia t-kat-tu-% “Assur bélu rabi 
lant w Istardte?’ a-si-bu-ut 4A ssurk* 
i-na kir-bi-sa ak-ri-ma 


ak-sit-ma a-na_ sip-rv 


nikér® tas-ri-ih-te (v. tt)? ak-ki-ma v- 
Sat-lim kat-ra-ai saman “bu-di w hi-bi- 
is-ti_ U-Sal-ka a-na ru-us-te® 


i-na tas-ri-it ekalli sd ba-hu-la-te® 
mati-ia  %-sa-as-ka-a 


kardné?! du-us’-sti-pu 


muh-ha-si-in! 


<sur>*-ra-Si-in’ am-kir i-na_ ki-bit 
Assur a-bu ildni?’ u @Is-tar sar-ra-ti 
4sédi dum-kr 


damasst dum-ki ki-rib ekalli Sa-a-tu 


da®-rig lis-tab-ru-t8 ai tp-par-ku-t 
i-dla-a-sa 

1So also F1. 4F1, epus(us). 
2So Fl. 51, lunikérl, 


3F1, te. 6 FI, ti 


36. 


47. 


48. 


49. 


50. 


dl. 


52. 


125 


. of the forests, I let loose therein. 


By command of the god, within the 
orchards, the vine, every fruit bear- 
ing tree, and herbs throve luxuriously. 
The cypress and musukannu-tree, 
all kinds of trees, grew large and sent 
out many shoots(?); the cane-brakes 
developed rapidly (mightily); the 
birds of heaven, 

the zgiru-birds, built their nests, and 
the wild swine and beasts of the 
forest brought forth their young in 
The musukannu-tree 
and the cypress, the product of the 
parks, the reeds of 

the brakes which were in the swamp, 
I cut down and used them as desired, 
in the building of my royal palaces. 


abundance. 


When I had made an end of building 
my palace, Assur, the great lord, the 
gods and goddesses who dwell in 
Assyria, I invited therein and 

offered countless sacrifices and gave 
(them) presents. Oil of the fruit-tree 
(the olive) the products of the gardens, 
I brought to them in abundance. 

At the dedication of the palace, I 
drenched the foreheads of the people 
of my land with wine, with mead I 
sprinkled their hearts. 

At the command of Assur, father of 
the gods, and Ishtar, the queen, may 
the gracious shédu 


. and the gracious lamassu ever be seen 


in that palace, may they not with- 
draw from its side. 

PVM, See 

STB om: 

9F1, da-a 


126 


te 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


VI. 


MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS REFERRING TO THE 


“PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


a) 


. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissati sar "Assur 


abnun—-lu pi-'su-t' 


. $a ki-t te-im ili-ma a-na sip-ri ekalli-ia 


ina tr-si-[it] 


. ‘Ba-la-ta-at in-nam-ru nisé?! da-dd-me 
. na-ki-ri wu sGbé?’ hur-sa-a-ni pa-az- 


ru-ti kisitti(ti) kata™—va [é-nal] 


. zir-me-e U ag-gul-la-ti parzillt u-sa-as- 


't-ru'-[ma] 


. édé-lamassé?! rabiite?’ a-na bdbdte”! 


ekalli-ia u-"tir-ra] 


b) 


. ekal ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba 
. Sarru rabai sarru dan-nu sar kissati 


Sar 'ASsSur 


. ekallu Sanina la ist (ZAG-DI-N U- 


TUG-A) 


. a-na mu-sab béliti(tr)-su 


yyy 


. ki-rib “Ni-na-a essis(is) lu epus(us) 


c) 


. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissati Sar ‘A SSur 


4gédé-lamassé?! 


ig 


. rabtite®’ sd i-na wr-si-it “Ba-la-ta-ar 


. tb-ba-nu-t a-na ekal be-lu-ti-su 
. '§d' ki-rib Ninua** ha-di-7s %-sal-da-da 


110 


it 


dips i 


. Ll turned 


Sennacherib, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria: white limestone, 


. which at the command of the god 


was discovered in the land of Baladai, 
for the construction of my palace, 


. the people of enemy towns 
. and the men of remote (lit. hidden) 
‘mountain (districts), the conquest 


of my hands, with 


. Iron picks and pickaxes quarried, 


and 

it (the limestone) into 
mighty protecting bull-colossi, for 
the gates of my palace. 


. Palace of Sennacherib 
. the great king, the mighty king, king 


of the universe, king of Assyria, 


. “The Palace which has no Rival” 


. for his royal dwelling 
. In Nineveh he has built anew. 


. Sennacherib, king of the universe, 


king of Assyria, huge protecting bull: 
colossi 


. which were fashioned in the land of 


Balada, 


. for my royal palace 
. which is in Nineveh, I had joyfully! 


transported (dragged). 


1 Transporting these huge colossi may have been a picnic for Sennacherib, but the pictures we 
have of such activities (cf. Paterson, Palace of Sennacherib, Plates 27-28) do not indicate that it 
afforded much pleasure to the captives who pulled the sledges. 


Bmw NH Re 


“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 


d) 


. ekal ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sarru raba 
. Sarru dan-nu sar kissati sar 'Assur 


abnug nan 


. Sa (v. $d) kima se-im sa-ah-ha-ri Si-kin 


(v. stkin)-Su 


. nu-us-su-ku Sd ina (v. i-na) tar-si 


SarraniP! 


. abéP'-ia ma-la aban kisddi Su-ku-ru 


(v. ak-ru) 


. tna §ép™ §4N7-pur Sadi(z) (v. Sad-di-e) 


ra-ma-nu-us 


. ul-tan-ni a-na l 'za-za-a-ti 


. u-Se-pis-ma t-sal-di-da (v. 7d) 
. ki-rib “Ni-na-a 


e) 


. ekal (v. mat) ™*Sin-ahé?'-eriba sarru 


dan-nu (v. om. two words) sar kissati 


. Sar 'ASSur ina me-til §1-bir-ri-ta (Vv. 7d) 


Sa 1s-ru-ka 


. ab ildni?? 4A SSur &"ka-Sur-ru-u a-ka- 


ra (Vv. ru) 


. Sa mati(sadt)-su ru-u-ku %-ra-am-ma 


. ina sapal sir-ri “dalate?! 
. babate”’ ekalli-ia v-kin 


f) 


. ekal 4 Sin-ahé?'-eriba 

. Sarru rabii sar kis-Sa-ti 
. Sar ‘Assur dan-dan-nu 
. e-til kal mal-ki 


19 


1 
2. 


3. 


4. 


5. 


6. 


Zi 


127 


Palace of Sennacherib, the great king, 
the mighty king, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria. Ashnan-stone, 
whose splendid surface (made it seem) 
as if (it were composed) of kernels of 
sahhar-grain, 

which in the time of the kings, 


my fathers, was solely valued for 
necklaces (lit. stone of the neck), 
made its appearance(?) at the foot 
of Nipur-mountain, 

(and) I had female-colossi made there- 
of, and 


8-9. transported into Nineveh. 


113 


L; 


2. 


3. 


4, 


5. 
6. 


114 


lke 
2. 
3. 
4. 


The palace of Sennacherib, the great 
king, king of the universe, 

king of Assyria. Through the might 
of the scepter which 

Assur, father of the gods, presented 
to me, costly basalt, 

from a distant land (mountain, lit. 
whose land or mountain is distant), 
I brought 

and under the door-posts 

of the gates of my palace I placed it. 


Palace of Sennacherib, 

the great king, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria, the almighty, 
ruler of all princes. 


CHAPTER VII 


THE “BIT KUTALLI”? OR ARMORY 


I. THE BIT-KUTALLI INSCRIPTION OF THE ORIENTAL 
INSTITUTE PRISM (H2) 


Col. VI 


36. 


37. 


38. 


39. 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44, 


47. 


48. 


i-na ti-me-su-ma ul-tu ekalla kabal ali 
sd Ninua* 
a-na ri-mit Sarru-ti-ia %-sak-li-lu 


a-na tab-ra-a-'te kis-sat nisé”" lu-li-e 
t-mal-lu-si 


ekal ku-tal-li $d a-na su-te-Sur ka-ra-st 


pa-ka-a-di sisé”' sa-na-ki mimma sum- 
SU 

u-se-pi-su Sarram?” a-li-kut- mah-ri 
abé?'-1a 


tam-lu-sa ul tb-si Su-bat-sa su-uh-hu- 
rat-ma 

la nu-ku-lat e-pis-tas la-ba-ris ti-me 
tum-me-en-sa 


e-nis-ma is-da-a'-Sa ir-ma-a i-ku-pa 
r-SA-a-Sa 


. ekalla sa-a-tu a-na si-hir-ti-sa ak-kur 
46. 


ki-ru-bu-u ma--du ul-tu ki-rib v-sal-la 


u ta-mir-ti ali kima® a-haz-tim-ma lu 
as-ba-ta 

i-nat muh-hi lu wv -rad-di mas-kan 
ekallt mah-ri-tr 
1 H1, om. 


2H1, adds (nz). 4H, ina. 


3 H1, ki-ma. 


36. 


ol. 


38. 


39. 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


45. 
46. 


47. 


48. 


128 


At that time, after I had completed 
the palace 

in the midst of the city of Nineveh 
for my royal residence, 

had filled it with gorgeous furnishings, 
to the astonishment of all the people, 
(I found that) 

the side-palace, which the former 
kings, 

my ancestors, had built 


for the care of the camp, the stabling 
of the horses and the storing of things 
in general (lit. whatever its name), 
had no terrace, that its site was too 
small, 

that its construction had not been 
skillfully done, that, as the days went 
by, its foundation-platform 


. had become weak, its foundation had 


given way (and) its roof had fallen in. 
That palace I tore down in its totality. 
A large tract of land in (lit. out of) 
the meadows 

and environs of the city I took over 
(lit. seized),—according to plan, 
and added thereto. The site of the 
former palace 


MBE tf 


Col. 


49, 


50. 


51. 


52. 


53. 


54. 


55. 


56. 


57. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 


. a-nat 
’gusur é?! 


THE “BIT-KUTALLI” 


VI 

e-zib-ma i-na kak-ka-ri!} v-sal-li sd 
ul-tu ; 

mal-di nari as-ba-ta tam-la-a us-mal-li 
200 ti-ip-ki 

a-na e-la-ni %-Sak-ki ri-e-su ina arhi 
Se-me-e 


a-mu mit-ga-ri_si-ir tam-li-e Sa-a-tu 


i-na? nik-lat lib-bi-ia ekal ®"™pi-i-li 
au “eri-ni ni-pis-ti 'Hal®-ti u ekalla 


si-tr-tu tp-sit 'Assur** §dé eli mah-ri-ti 


ma--dig §u-tu-rat ra-ba-ta u nak-lat 


i-na si-pir *dim-gal-li-e en-ku-ti 


mu-sab i 
ver-ni si-ru-ti tar-bit *¢Ha-ma-nim 
Sadi(z) el-la 


u-Ssat-ri-sa e-li-sin “dalati?! 1i5-1a-ri 


me-sir ert nam-ri t-rak-kis-ma %v-rat- 
ta-a 
babir'-sin® i-na %¢"pi-1-li pi-si-e? 


$a i-na tr-si-it “Ba-la-da-ai in-nam-ru 


Sédé lamassé”’ si-ru-ti8 %-se-pis-ma 
7m-na 
1H1, kar. 


SIs. yan, 


3H, ha-at. 
4H1, om.(?). 


be-lu-ti-ia = %-Se-pis 


49. 


50. 


51. 


52. 


53. 


54. 


55. 


56. 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 


SHI, wt. 


6 Hl, S-in. 


OR ARMORY 129 


I abandoned. 
the meadows 
which I had seized from the river- 
flats(?), I filled in a terrace, 

200 tipki (thickness of brick) I 
raised its top on high. In a favorable 
month 

on an auspicious day, on the top of 
that terrace,— 

following the prompting (lit. cun- 
ning) of my heart,—a palace of lime- 
stone 

and cedar, of Hittite workmanship 
(or in Hittite style of architecture), 
also a 

lofty palace of Assyrian workman- 
ship, which 

far surpassed the former (palace) in 
size and beauty (cunning workman- 
ship) ,— P 


With the ground of 


. according to the plan of wise archi- 


tects, 

I had (them) build for my royal 
residence. 

Mighty cedar beams, the product of 
Amanus, the shining mountain, 

I stretched over them (that is: with 
cedar I roofed them). Door-leaves 
of liari-wood I 

covered with a sheathing of bright 
bronze and set up 

in their doors. Out of white lime- 
stone, 

which is found in the country of the 
city of Baladai, 

I had mighty colossi fashioned and 


THI, + 
Shake tr 


130 


Col. 
65. 


66. 


80. 


81. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


VI 

au su-me-la ti-Sa-as-bi-ta Sigar-sin a-na 
Su-te-Sur 

sal-mat kakkadi pa-ka-di mur-ni-is-ki 
pare?! a-ga-li 1- 


‘ 


. bel-li “narkabdti?! “at-ta-ra-te e-rik-ki 


is-pa-a-a-te 


. pit-pa-na-a?-te w us-st mimma Sum-Su 


a-nu-t@ tahdazr4 


. na-as-ma-di sisé?' paré?’ sa e-mu-ki 


ra-ba-a-te 1-Sti-t Suk-nu-se a-na ni-ri 
ki-sal-la-sa 

kd-nu-a rabis us-rab-bi ekalla sa-a-ti® 
ul-tu® us-Se-sa 


. a-di na-bur-ri-sa ar-sip t-Sak-lil mu- 


Sar-€ 


. Si-tir Sumil-ia t-na_ kir-bi-Sa as-kun 


a-na dr-kat imé?® 

i-na sarrani?®s mdré?'-ia sé 4ASSur uw 
ai star? 

a-na ri-é-um"™ mdti u nisé?’ i1-nam- 
bu-w!! 2i-kir-Su 

e-nu-ma ekallu §a-a-tu® 7-lab-bi-ru-ma 
en-na-hu 

ruba ar-ku-% an-hu-sa lu-ud-dis mu- 
sar-e 


. Stir Sumi'-ia li-mur-ma samna lip- 


Su-us niki 


. lik-ki a-na as-ri-su® lu-tir 4Assur a 


47 star? 

tk-ri-bi-su 1-sim-mu-u"! mu-nak-kir sat- 
ri-1a 

u Sumi7-ia 4A sSur bélu rabit abu iléniP! 


LHI bt. UA eli, Aya, 
Hi om: SHI, tu. 
3 HI, tu. 7H1, Si-me. 


“HI, ta-ha-zi. 


65. 


66. 


67. 


68. 


69. 
70. 


(ae 


72. 


73. 


74. 


75. 


76. 


78. 


ae 


80. 


81. 


stationed right and left of their 
entrances. For the equipment of the 
black-headed (people, that is the 
Assyrians), the housing (storing) of 
(battle)-steeds, mules, colts 

riding camels(?) chariots, wagons, 
carts, quivers, 

bows and arrows, all kinds of battle- 
equipment :— 

teams of horses and mules which 
possessed enormous strength, and 
were broken to the yoke. 

I greatly enlarged its (i.e. the palace’s) 
court of the gate(?). That palace, 
from its foundation 

to its coping, I constructed, I finished. 
A stela 

with my name inscribed I set up in 
it. In the days to come 

among the kings, my sons, whose 
name Assur 

and Ishtar shall name for the rule of 
land and people,— 

when that palace shall have become 
old and ruined, 


. may some future prince restore its 


ruins, look upon 

the stela with my name inscribed 
(thereon), anoint it with oil, 

pour out a libation upon it and return 
it toits place. (Then) Assur and Ishtar 
will hear his prayers. He who de- 
stroys my inscription and my name 
may Assur, the great lord, the father 
of the gods, 


8H1, adds (nz). MAI, 2%. 
9H1, 27§-tar. BHT, i. 
10 AI, -w(m)-ut. 18 AT Ste: 


THE “BIT-KUTALLI” OR ARMORY 


Col. VI 


82. 
83. 


84. 
85. 


II. 


55. 


56. 


57. 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 


nak-rig li-zi-is-su “hatta uv “kussd 
li-kim-sti-ma lis-ki-pa palé-su 


erahDyPzu li-mu "Ga-hi-lu 
°"bél pihdte *Ha-ta-rik-kat 


82. 
83. 


84. 
85. 


131 


treat him as an enemy, 
take away from him scepter and 
throne and overthrow his rule. 


Month Tammuz, eponym of Gahilu 
governor of Hatarikka. 


ANOTHER VERSION OF THE BUILDING OF THE ARMORY (H4) 


i-nu-Su ekal ku-tal-li sé ki-rib Ninua** 
Sa a-na su-te-Sur ka-ra-si 

pa-ka-ad sisé?’ % sa-na-a-ki mimma 
sSum-Su t-Se-pi-su <Sarrdni?'-ni> a-li- 
kut mah-ri 

abé'-(e)a $d ekalli Sa-a-tu tam-lu-ti-sa 
ul ib-si-ma su-uh-hu-rat si-bat-sa 

ul sum-du-la 
kd-nu-t ki-sal-lu la-ba-ris timé?! 


a-na st-us-mur_ sisé?! 


tim-me-en-sa 1-nis-ma it-ru-ra ri-sa-a- 
Sa ekallu sa-a-tu a-na_ si-hir-ti-sa 
ak-kur 

ki-ma a-haz-tim-ma ki-ru-bu-t ma-a- 
du ul-tu ki-rib v-sal-li lu as-ba-ta 
st-ru-us-sa us-rad-di mas-kan_ ekalli 
mah-ri-ti e-zib-ma i-na ki-rib- ki-ru- 
bi-e 

Sa ul-tu u-sal-li as-ba-ta tam-la-a 
us-mal-li 3 Sus+20 ti-ip-ki i-na na-al- 
ban-ia 


rabi(t) a-na e-la-ni t-Sak-ki ri-e-su 
si-ir tam-li-e Sa-a-tu sd ekalldte?’- 
1a 

at-ta-di tim-me-en-sin ekal ®™pi-i-li 
ver-ne tam-sil ekal 'Ha-at-te 


55. 


56. 


57. 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 


At that time (I found that) the side- 
palace which is in Nineveh, which the 
kings, my ancestors had built 

for the care of the camp, the stabling 
of the horses and the storing of things 
in general, (that) 

that palace had no terrace and its 
site was too small, 

for the exercising of the horses the 
gate(?)-court was not roomy enough, 
(that), as the days went by, 

its foundation had become weakened 
and its roof was tottering. That 
palace in its totality I tore down. 
According to plan, I took over a large 
tract out of the meadows 

joining it thereto. The site of the 
former palace I abandoned and in the 
middle of the tract 

which I had taken over from the 
meadows I filled in a terrace. 200 
tepke (thickness of brick) of my large 
bricks (lit. brick-work) 

I raised its top on high. Upon that 
terrace 


I laid the foundation of my palaces; 
a palace of limestone (and) cedar 
(after) the pattern of a Hittite 
palace, 


1 Date of H1, ina 2bAdaru Amu 20kam li-mu ™Bél-émur-a-ni embél piati ¢Gar-ga-mis. 


132 


66. 


68. 


73. 


74. 


76. 


. “daldte®’ “Ssurméni 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


. w& ekallu si-ir-tu e-pis-ti “ASSur™* &a 


ma-dis Sé-tu-ra raba-a W Sar-ha a-na 
mu-Ssab 


. eet a 


sarru-ti-ia %-Se-pis as-Si mur-ni-is- 
ki-ia Suk-nu-se a-na ni-i-ri u pa-ka-du 


. Sal-la-at na-ki-ri ka-bit-tu §d v%-Sat-li- 


ma “Assur ki-sal-la sa kd-nu-t dannig 


us-rab-bi i-na e-mu-ki si-ra-a-ti Sd 
tlani bélé?'-ia Sarrdni?! ‘Amurrt** kéli- 
Su-un 


. &4 a-na sépat-ia u-sa-ak-mi-st t-ma- 


ir-Su-nu-tt ur-tu “gusiré?! “eri-ne 


. rabtiti?! ki-rib **¢Ha-ma-nim_ tk-si-tu 


a-na Ninua™ 7-si-tu-nim-ma u-sat-ri- 
sa e-li-sin 

li-ca-rt_ me-sir eri 
u-rak-kis-ma t-rat-ta-a ba-bi-sin 


. abrugsnan §d kima zér kis-Se-e sikin-Su 


nu-su-ku ma-la aban kisddi ak-ru 
aban ”"“ka-bi-e 


ma-ga-ri W ri-th-su Si-tu-ki mur-su 
a-na améli la tehé(e) (NA NU-TE-E) 
Sa ul-tu sép *4Ni-pur 


Sadi(i) tb-bab-la it-ti %"“pi-i-li_ pi-si-e 
Sd i-na °Ba-la-ta-ai in-nam-ru 


. a-na “Sedé-lamassé”! %-Se-pis-ma t-Sa- 


as-bi-ta Sigar-si-in  !“'za-za-a-ti 


abruasnan dim-me “eri-nt si-ru-Si-in 
ul-ziz-ma sda ekal "pi-i-li Sa-a-tu 


65. 


66. 


67. 


68. 


69. 


(al. 


(2: 


74. 


76. 


rain) and 


and a lofty palace of Assyrian work- 
manship, which far surpassed (the 
former palace) in size and splendor, 
I had 

(them) build for my royal residence. 
That the steeds might be trained to 
the yoke 

and the heavy booty of the enemy 
which Assur put into my hands might 
be stored (in safety), I greatly 
increased the court of the gate(?). 
(Relying) on the exalted might of the 
gods, my lords, I sent the order to 
the kings of Amurru, all of them, who 
had submitted to me (lit. at my feet). 
Great cedar beams 


. they felled in Mt. Amanus, dragged 


them to Nineveh and roofed (my 
palaces with them). 

Door-leaves of cypress and liaru- 
wood I covered with a sheathing of 
bronze and set up in their doors. 
Ashnan-stone, whose beautiful struc- 
ture had the appearance of cucumber- 
seeds, and was highly prized for neck- 
laces (lit. stones of the neck) 


. or amulets to bring on rain (lit. stone 


for commanding favor or bringing on 
to keep disease from 
approaching a man, which 
was brought from the foot of Mt. 
Nipur, together with white limestone 
which is found at Baladai, 


. I had them fashioned into protecting 


colossi and placed them by their 
entrances. Upon cow-colossi of (this) 
ashnan-stone 

I set cedar columns (pillars) and (on 
these) I placed the cornice of that 
limestone palace. 


~] 
~ 


80. 


81. 


82. 


83. 


84. 


85. 


86. 


87. 


88. 


THE “BIT-KUTALLI” OR ARMORY 


u-sat-li-ma bél ni-me-ki ¢4Ha (¢NIN- 
IGI-KUG) 


. ma-la dul-la-a-ti siparrt sé a-na hi- 


Sih-ti ekalldte?'-ia sé Ninua** ap-ti-ku 


. ki-c te-im ili 2t-?-pi ti-tt ab-ni-ma erd 


ki-rib-Su as-pu-uk-ma 1-si-ra 


Sip-ru. ka-ti-ca wu S 4amassé?’ ert 


ma-sa-a-ti as-kup-pu &™asnan 


U-Sa-as-Si-Si-na-tt bi-rit 4 "“zazdte?! 
(ZA-ZA-MES) ul-ziz na-bur-ris ti-Se- 
me-ma t-Ssa-lik 

as-me-is i-na ki-sa-al-li rabi(i) sap-la- 
nu ekal ®“pi-1-li a-na ri-mit Sarru- 
ti-ia 


Sd mrasnan &“TUR-MI-NA-MAR- 
DA & ®"“sa-a-bu %-Se-pis ki-gal-lum 
4 dim-me stparrv ; 

Sd Ses-Sa-Su-nu andku bal-lum si-ru-us- 
Su ul-ziz-ma i-na da-ap-pi “eri-ni sa 
kaspt (KI-SAG) 

lit-bu-Su %-Sat-ri-sa_ su-lul-su— ekallu 
ma-hir-ti dannigs t-sar-bi %-sa[-ak-lil]- 
St 

u-Sar-ri-ih-s a-na__tab-rat 
nisé?! la-la-a us-mal-lig man-da-at-tu 
'bi-lat! matatr?’ 


kis-sat 


a-haz-tu sé ‘Ma-da-ai ru-ku-ti $d i-na 
Sarrani?'(ni) abé?! (e)-a ma-am-man 


la im-hu-ru bi-lat-su-un it-tr “su-wm- 
ba-te “narkabdte”’ [ru-ku-bi Sar(?)! 
E-la-me-t 


133 


. e-mid hété?'-Sa i-na uz-ni ni-kil-ti $4 77. With the keen understanding which 


Ka, lord of wisdom, gave me, I 


78-79. made clay molds for all the copper 


80. 


81. 


82. 


83. 


84. 


85. 


86. 


87. 


88. 


work needed (desired) for my palace 
which I built at Nineveh,—according 
to the command of the god, and 
poured bronze therein. The work of 
my hands 
was successful and (these) female 
protecting deities of shining bronze I 
flanked (lit. caused to bear) with 
slabs of ashnan-stone, 

and set them between the cow- 
colossi. I made them serve as a 
dado(?) and 

made them most beautiful. In the 
great court below the limestone 
palace (built) for my royal residence, 
I built (laid) 

a pavement of ashnan, breccia, and 
sabu-stone. Four copper pillars, 


whose capitals(?) were of cast lead, 
I set up on it (the pavement) and over 
beams of cedar 

which were covered with silver, I 
spread its roof. The former palace I 
greatly enlarged. I finished it 

and splendidly adorned it, to the 
amazement of all peoples I filled it 
with costly equipment. Gifts, the 
tribute of the lands, 

the wealth of the distant Medes, 
whose tribute none among the kings 
my fathers had (ever) received, 
together with the wagons and riding 
chariots of the Elamite king, 


134 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


89. sar Babili*' & ‘Kal-di &4 ik-&i-da 


90. 


OL. 


92. 


93. 


94. 


katat-ar [it'-ti "ha-lab-ti! la mi-nam 


Sa ak-ki(?)-mu a-na na-kam-ti sd 
ekalli Sa-a-tu '%-Se-bi-lam|-ma %-se-rib 
ki-rib-sa 


i-na ki-bit ¢Assur abu ildni?! w 4Belit 
(NIN-LIL) Sar-[ra]-ti [ki-rib] ekalli 
[Sa-a-tu] 

i-na tu-ub séri hu-ud lib-bi u nu-wm- 
mur pa-nt [lu-wrme-ma. ..... | 
lit-tu-tu li-pu-t-a dir dari a-na ti-me 
ru-ku-tt li-ku-nu ki-rib-sa 


4sédu na-sir nap-sa-a-ti ilu mu-Ssal-li- 
mu ur-ru wu mu-Su at tp-par-ku-t 
i-da-ar 


89. 


90. 


BL, 


94. 


the king of Babylon and Chaldea, 
which my hands had captured, and 
innumerable (pieces) of equipment 
which I had laid up as a store for 
that palace,—(all this) I had (them) 
bring and place therein (in the 
palace). 

At the command of Assur, father of 
the gods, and Belit, the queen, may I 
dwell in that palace 


. In health of body, joy of heart and 


brightness of countenance. .... 
.... may my descendants forever 
and for all time to come, abide 
therein. 

May the bull-colossus, guardian of life, 
the god who keeps (things) safe by 
day and night, not leave its side. 


1, 


10. 


ia 


12. 


13. 


14. 


. Sa pa-lih ildni?® 


. mu-sar-bu-u 


CHAPTER VIII 


“THE TEMPLE OF THE NEW YEAR’S FEAST” 
a) INSCRIPTION ON A FOUNDATION STELA FOUND AT ASSUR (I 2) 


m dSin-ahé?'-eriba sarru rabai sarru 
dan-nu sar kissati Sar "A ssur** 


. Sar kib-rat irbitti(tt) mu-tar-ru-u nise?! 


rapsate?! 


. e-pis sa-lam 4Assur! wu ildni?! rabitr?! 


mu-sak-lil 


. pa-ra-as E-sdr-ra ma-si-u-ti ina bi-rt 


ina ki-bit 


. Samas wu *Adad mu-sar-bu-u st-luh- 


hi-su-un 


. mu-tir “lamassu H-sdr-ra ba-as-tt a-na 


as-ri-Su 


Sa Samé(e) wu ildne?? 
1A SSur™* ra-bis 


. mu-du-u mu-ul-li ildni?’ rabiiti?’ ina 


Sub-ti-Ssu-nu 

si-ma-ti-su-nu 
LA SSur** 

mu-sak-lil ma-ha-zi-su mu-ma-gir mat 
na-ki-r1 


mu-ab-bit da-dd-me-su-un mu-sah-ru-u 
nidir éP! 

pi-tu-u_ be-ra-a-tt mu-Ssah-bi-ib  pat- 
ta-a-tr 

Sa-kin nu-uh-st u duh-du ina v-ga-ri 
1A SSur** rap-Ssu-tt 

mu-kin mé?! si-ka-a-ti ina kar-ba-a-ti 
tA SSur** 


1 Written AN-SAR. 


e-pis 


135 


ay 


10: 


as 


12. 


13. 


14. 


Sennacherib, the great king, the 
mighty king, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria. 


. king .of the four quarters (of the 


world), ruler of wide-spread peoples; 


. maker of the image (statue) of Assur 


and the great gods; who restores all 
(fulfills) 


. the forgotten cults of Esharra, who, 


through the oracle, 
behest 


(and) at the 


. of Shamash and Adad, multiplies 


their ceremonies (cults, ritual); 


. who restores the powerful(?) pro- 


tecting deity of Esharra to its place; 


. who fears the great gods of heaven 


and greatly 


. befriends the gods of Assyria, who 


exalts the great gods in their shrines, 


. multiplies their adornments; maker 


of Assyria, 

who completes its metropolis; sub- 
duer (who makes obedient) of the 
enemies’ land, 
destroyer of their towns; who digs 
canals, 

open wells, runs irrigation-ditches, 


who brings plenty and abundance to 
the wide acres of Assyria, 

who furnishes water for irrigation to 
Assyria’s meadows,— 


136 


16. 


Live 


18. 


boy 


20. 


ik, 


23. 


24. 


26. 


27. 


_ Fakkab A PIN 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


. $a ul-tt d-me pa-ni hi-ri-ti wu si-kin ina 


LA SSur*? 


man-ma-an la i-mu-ru ai-um-ma la 
1-du-u 

Si-ut mah-ri la i-pu-su mu-har-rit 
Si-pir 4Libittu 


ul-té Si-pir bal-tu-ti a-di ki-mah si-mat 
me-tu-tu 

ina "yi -1-li aban Sadi(i) Sa ma-na-a- 
ma ina 'Assur® la i-pu-su 


Sarru pa-ni mah-ri-ia ma-al-ku pit- 
ku-du Sa eli Sarréni”! a-sib pa-rak-ki 


nu--u-da-at be-lut-su tukulti(tt) méati- 
Su na--id kab-li u tahdzr 


. su-lul ummdndate’?!-su a-na-ku e-nu-su 


is-tu sa-lam 4Assur béli rabi(z) béli-ia 


u sa-lam ildni?’ rabiti?’ epusu-ma 
u-Sar-me-Su-nu-tt. Su-bat-su-nu ni-ih-ti 


arah BAR-SAG-SAG arhu ris-tu-u Sa 
a-bi 4H n-lil %Na-an-mur-te 
Sa Sar 


a-sin-ni ki-ri-te 


tlani®! 4A ssur 


Sa ul-tu time rikite?’ ina e-sa-a-ti 
u sah-ma-sa-a-ti. Bit-a-ki-it 


sért. im-ma-su-u ina ki-rib alt in-ni- 
ip-pu-su pa-ra-as Sar ildni?! 4A Sur 


15. 


16. 


Li 


18. 


i; 


20. 


dil 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 


27. 


engineering (lit. digging) and con- 
struction such as none had seen in 
Assyria in days 

of old, none had known 


of (those kings) who went before, (none) 
had made; who replaces (adobe)-brick 
work, (lit. the work of the brick-god), 
both in buildings for the living and 
the tombs provided for the dead, 
with mountain limestone, which none 
of the kings of Assyria, who went 
before me, had done; 

provident prince, whose rule is praised 
above that of (all) kings who dwell in 
palaces; 

the support of his land, terrible (lit. 
exalted) in battle and warfare, 


. the (protecting) shadow of his armies, 


am I. At that time, after I had 
made the image of Assur, the great 
lord, my lord, 

and the images of the great gods, had 
caused them to take up their abode 
in their shrines of peace, 

(in) the month BAR-SAG-SAG, the 
first month of father Enlil, the month 
Nanmurti, 

(the month) of the star APIN, of 
the feast of the banquet of the king 
of the gods, Assur, 

which from days of old, on account of 
disturbances and _ uprisings, had 
ceased to be held (lit. neglected) in 
the Temple of the New Year’s Feast 
of the Desert, 

(but) was then being celebrated within 
the city,—the cult of the king of the 
gods, Assur, in (lit. with) that (kind 
of a) structure! 


28. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


33. 


o4. 


35. 


36. 


Oo”. 


38. 


39. 


40. 


41. 


situated at a distance of 30 double-hours in the eastern sea,’’ and he sent tribute. 


“THE TEMPLE OF THE NEW YEAR’S FEAST” 


it-ti Sip-ri-im-ma_ Ssti-a-ti a-na_ e-pis 
Bit-a-kit lib-bi ub-la-ni-ma 


. te-im 4Samas *Adad al-mad-ma an-na 


ki-<ni> i-pu-lu-in-ni-ma 


tk-bu-u-ni e-pi-e-Sue ina arhi tabi 


ai-me Sal-mu ina si-pir ra-bu-tt 


ni-me-ik asipu-u-tt ina %"pi-i-li aban 
Sadi(z) ussi-su ad-di-ma 

ul-la-a 
gab-dib-bi-su ina aban sadi(2) 


ri-Si-Su ul-tu  ussi-Su— a-di 


u-Sak-lil-Su-ma_ %-sak-kir-su hur-sa- 
nis 2-T A pat-ta-a-ti 


a-na_ -ta-ti-Su U-Sah-ri-i-ma_ “kira 
nu-uh-sv 
sip-pat Sa sa-sa°?’ %-Sa-as-hir-su-ma 


mu-sa-ri-e ku-uz-bi 


t-ta-ti-Su- u-Sal-me_=—- 28-tu. —- Babila** 
ah-bu-u 
lant sa %-Sab-bi-ru nisé?'-Su ina 


“kakki as-pu-nu 


as-§t kak-kar ali st-a-ti |St'-ws-st-7 
kak-kar-su as-suh-ma 


a-na "Pu-rat-ti a-na tam-tim %v%-sa-bil 
e-pi-ri-Su a-na Dilmun** 


ik-sti-du-ma Dilmun*'-ai i-mu-ru-ma 
hat-ti pu-luh-ti sa 4A ssur 
im-kut-su-nu-li-ma 
ub-lu-u-net 


na-mur-ta-su-nu 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


33. 


4. 


30. 


36. 


37. 


38. 


39. 


40). 


41. 


137 


—to build a Temple of the New 
Years’ Feast, my heart moved me, 
the command of Shamash and Adad 
I sought by oracle (lit. learned), a 
favorable reply they gave me, 

and commanded (me) to build. In 
a favorable month, a propitious (lit. 
peaceful) (lit. 
work) of masterbuilders (and) 

the wisdom of the priests, I built its 
foundation of mountain limestone, 

I raised aloft its turrets (head), its 
foundation as well as its walls (lit. 
from its foundation to its walls) 

I constructed entirely of mountain 
limestone, and I raised it up moun- 
Two irrigation ditches 

I dug around its sides, and encircled 
it with a garden of abundance 
and 

orchard(s) of—, with luxurious plan- 
tations I surrounded its sides. 

After I had destroyed Babylon, 


day, with the aid 


tain high. 


had smashed the gods thereof, and 
had struck down its people with the 
sword, 

—that the ground of that city might 
be carried off, I removed its ground 
and 

had it carried to the Euphrates (and 
on) to the sea. Its dirt (lit. dust) 
reached (was carried) unto Dilmun, 
the Dilmunites saw it, and the terror 
of the fear of Assur 

fell upon them and they brought their 
treasures ;! 


1 Reports of the power of Sennacherib’s father had reached the ears of ‘‘Upiri, king of Dilmun, 


ll. 369 f. 


Sargon’s Annals, 


138 


42. 


43. 


44. 


45. 


46. 


47. 


48. 


49. 


50. 


51. 


53. 


54. 


50. 


56. 


. Sa-a-tth 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


at-ti na-mur-ti-su-nu ummani! di-ku- 
ut mati-su-nu za-bil dup-sik-ki 


vnarkabat siparri epsét?! stparri t-nu- 
th si-pir mati-su-nu 

a-na na-kar Babili** ts-pu-ru-u-ni a-na 
nu-uh-hi lib-bi . 

4A ssur béli-ia_ ta-nit-ti 
nisé?! a-na da-la-li 


dan-nu-ti-Su 


a-na ta-mar-ti nisé?’ ah-ra-a-ti epiré??! 
Babilv* 

as-su-ha-am-ma ina bit a-ki-tt Su-a-te 
ka-ri-e katmtz v-gar-ri-in 


ina na-di-e usst Sa Bit-a-ki-ti na-mur-tt 
Sa ™Ka-ri-bi-ilu 

Sar 'Sa-ba-> aban(?) . . ni-sik-ti 
abné?! rikké?! tabuti?! 

[lc|-ka tk-ba-am-ma is-tu lib-bi na-mur- 
ti Su-a-th 

abné rikké?’ a-na libbi ussi-su ad-di 
a-na libbi uss? Bit-a-ki-te 


abnusandu 
abruuknt @-hulala &’“musgarru 


kaspu—- hhurdsu 


abnu(JD-AS abnu UD-AS-A8 IM-D UB 


(aSpuk ?) nap-har rikké?' ta-bu-tui 


ki-’mal.. . . - ht uSsst St-a-ti ni-gu- 
la-a Saman ru-us-ti 

ki-ma mé”! nari lu as-lu-uh te-mi-en-na 
at-ta 

Sa ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar 'Assur* ra-im 
ki-na-a-te 


42. 


43. 


44, 


46. 


47. 


48. 


49. 


50. 


51. 


o2. 


54. 


55. 


56. 


. of Assur, 


. UD-ASH-stones, 


with their treasures they sent artisans, 
mustered from their land, carriers of 
the basket, 

a copper chariot, copper tools, vessels 
of the workmanship of their land, 
—at the destruction of Babylon. 
To quiet the heart 

my lord, that peoples 
should bow in submission before his 
exalted might, 

I removed the dust of Babylon for 
presents to (the most) distant peoples, 
and in that Temple of the New Year’s 
Feast, I stored up (some) in a covered 
bin (?). 

At the laying of the foundation of 
the Temple of the New Year’s Feast, 
the treasure which Karibi-ilu 

king of Saba’,— . . .—stones, pre- 
cious-stones, choice herbs, 
ordered to be brought, from that 
treasure, 

stones and herbs I laid down in the 
heart of its foundation, in the heart 
of the foundation of that Temple of 
the New Year’s Feast, 

silver, gold, sandu-stone (carnelian ?), 
lapis-lazuli, hulalu, mushgarru, 
UD-ASH-ASH- 
stones, I heaped up. All kinds of 
choice herbs, 

like—I—. That foundation I 
sprinkled with the choicest 

oil as with water from the river. 
Thou, Foundation (-deposit), 

for Sennacherib, king of Assyria, 
lover of justice, 


1Three Sabaean kings, and one mukarrib, of this name are known (see Corpus Inscr. Sem., 
Pars Quarta, Tomus II, Nos. 373 f., and Glaser, Skizze, I, 62). 


Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon had 


dealings with Saba’, the latter with a king called Ithamar (Annals, 1. 97). 


57. 


58. 


59. 


60. 


61. 


62. 


63. 


64. 


65. 
66. 


67. 


68. 


69. 


70. 


rip 


72. 


“THE TEMPLE OF THE NEW YEAR’S FEAST” 139 


e-pis sa-lam 4Assur ba-an bit da-me- 57. maker of the image of Assur, builder 

tk-ta-Su a-na ¢Assur ki-bi of the house of his grace, to Assur 
speak: 

u-ti AsSurk* yu H-Ssdr-ra_ lis-te-li-bu 58. With Assyria and Esharra may his 

lipt?'-su offspring prosper; 

mar é?'-Su mar-maré?'-Su it-ti sal-mat 59. may his sons and his grandsons abide 

kakkadi li-ku-nu among the black-headed race 

a-na du-ur da-a-ri ai-um-ma rubi 60. (of men) for ever and ever. May 

arkii(%) sa 4A ssur . any future prince 

a-na r@u-ut matt u nisé?! i-nam-bu-u 61. whose name Assur shall call for the 

SUM-SU rulership (shepherding) of land and 
people, 

Sa ina pali-su bitu st-a-ti in-na-hu 62. in whose reign that temple shall fall 

an-hu-us-su to ruins, restore 

lid-dif mu-sar-ai li-mur-ma samna_ 63. its ruins; may he look upon my 

lip-su-us memorial stela, anoint it with oil, 

niké ik-ki ina as-ri-su lis-kun 64. offer sacrifices, and restore it to its 
place. 

4A SSur tk-ri-bi-su 1-Sim-me 65. And Assur will hear his prayers, 

mu-ni-kir mu-sar-at da-ai-i-si a-ma- 66. But the destroyer of my stela, who 

ti-1a ignores my word, 

e-pis [la] tabi al-na..... }?? w 67. who does that which is not good for— 

pir-hr?'-Su-nu and their offspring,— 

4A SSur Sar ildni?’ u ildni? rabati?’ Sa 68. may Assur, king of the gods, and the 

Samé(e) wu irsitim(tim) great gods of heaven and earth, 

ar-rat (la] nap-st-ri ma-ru-us-ti li-ru- 69. curse him with an evil curse which 

ru-Su-ma cannot be removed, may 

Sarru-us-su. ligs-ki-pu baldt-su. lu-ki- 70. they overthrow his kingship, deprive 

Mu-SU him of life, and 

Suma-su zéra-Su _pir-hi(lipa?)-su uw 71-72. destroy his name, his seed, his 

na-an-nab-su kith and his kin, in every land. 


ina nap-har matdti li-hal-li-ku 


b) INSCRIPTION INTENDED FOR A FOUNDATION STELA (I6) 


. ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar 'Assurk* e-pis 1. Sennacherib, king of Assyria, maker of 


sa-lam 7A sSur uw ildni?! rabtiter! the images of Assur and the great gods: 


. Bit-a-ki-it séri Sa "parsu-Sa' ul-tu 2. the Temple of the: New Year’s Feast 


ame?! rikiite?’ im-ma-su-u of the Plain, whose cult has been for- 
gotten since days of old, 


140 


10. 


UB be 


12; 


13. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


. fina bil-ri wu ki-bit 4Samas u “Adad 


Bit|-ug(?)-ga bitu ka-mu-u tk-mu-su 
isdtu(girru) 


bit 


pa-pa-hi-’u  E-balag-ga 
str-tu. ni-bit-su az-kur 


. abul siparri russa(a) Sa ma-la a-ga-[le?’ 


Sa] si-pir “Nappahu 


. ina nik-lat ramdni-ia t-Se-pis-ma sa- 


lam ‘Assur Sa ana libbi Tiamat] 
sal-ti allaku(ku) 


. “kastu ki-t sa na-su-v ina ’narkabti sa 


ra-ak-bu a-bu-bu [sa pa-ak'-du 


. tAmurru sa a-na mu-kil ap-pa-a-ti 


at-ti-Su rak-bu a-'na pi'-i sa 4Samas u 
4A dad 


. tna bi-rt tk-bu-nim-ma_ si-ir abulli 


Sa-a-SU sani?" al- 
laku(ku) 

u arki-su llaku(ku) sa ru-ku-bu rak-bu 
Sa ina sépdt-su illaku(ku) [wu] ki-c 


Sa ina pani 4A SSur 


€-sir pa-ni-su 


si-id-ru u arki 4A sSur si-id-ru Ti-amat 
nab-nit [kir-bi-su] sa 4A ssur Sar ildni 


a-na lib-bi-su sal-ti il-la-ku a-na ‘eli 
pila sa “Samas u 4Adad si-ir abulla 
Sa-a-Su e-sir 


si-it-ti tani?! Sa ina §épat-su-nu al-la- 
ku ina ela pi-i sa “Samas u ¢Adad 


3. 


10. 


Ik. 


12. 


13. 


which(?) I restored at the command 
of the oracle (lit. oracle and com- 
mand) of Shamash and Adad,— 
its outer temple, Bit-ugga, was de- 
stroyed by fire. 


. The name of its sanctuary, E-balagga, 


I changed and I called its 


exalted name. 


. A gate of burnished copper, with all 


kinds of—, in the workmanship of 
the Smith-god, 


. by my own artistic ability, I made, 


and the image of Assur, who is 
advancing to battle into the midst 
of Tiamat, 


. as he raises his bow, riding in a 


chariot, bringing on the storm, 


. (and the image of) Amurru, who 


rides with him as charioteer (holder 
of the reins), (these) I engraved upon 
that gate 


. at the command of Shamashand Adad, 


as they gave it through the oracle. 
The gods who went before him 

and after him, those who rode on 
chariots, and those who went on 
foot, as they were drawn up in line 
before Assur, 

and as they were drawn up in line 
behind Assur. (The image of) Tia- 
mat, (and) the creatures inside her, 
into whose midst 

Assur, king of gods is advancing to 
battle,—I engraved upon that gate in 
obedience to the command of 
Shamash and Adad. 

The rest of the gods, who were 
advancing on foot,—at the command 
of Shamash and Adad (I engraved 
these) — 


14. 


15. 


so Gece 


Rev. 


il 


10. 


. ma-la 


“THE TEMPLE OF THE NEW YEAR’S FEAST” 


a-di la-a 4*Assur Ti-amat i-kam-mu-u 
ti-ma-ma-a-nu sa Ti-amat i-na-as-sa-a 


[pa-na(?)! i-nam-di-nu ki-t an-ni-i 
ina §épa-su-nu t-du-ul-lu 

. it-te-Su-nu ku( ?)-ul-[lu] [ana eli! 
pi-z sa 4Samas u 4Adad [sa si-ir] 


le-sir| 
kaspt hurdst siparri se-ir-th 


[a-bul|-lc  Su-a-ti = aS-tu-ru 


Cy ee ee 


. ul-ziz t-nu-ti kaspi hurdsi stparri 


ul-tu eli 1 IGI-MAS(?) 


. a-di 1 Siklu Sup-si-lim-ma_ a-ha-mes 


a-na la? .. mu-nak-kil nik-la-te-su- 


nu 


. sa-bit bat-ki-su-nu a-li---e a-na-ku( ?) 


Sum-ma sa dun sa stparri Sa-a-su 


. 'a?'-na bab baldti ta-Sak-kan at-mi Sar 


tlani®! 4A sSur ilu ba-ni-ta 


TES nts 4)-Sad-ru u mas-kan sa-lam 
44 SSur wu sa-lam iléni rabiti?! 
at-ti-su. a-na_ libbt Ti-amat 
sal-ti il-la-ku is-(giS?)-ru-su bat-ka 
SU-% 


. la a-na-ku %-sap-si-lu a-na id- ... - 


su-nu-ti as-su li-ch-ha-kim 


. an-na tna lib-bi us-Sa-am-id tna libbi 


an-nim-ma hi-kim ki-t bat-ka st-u 
ana-ku t-sap-si-lu 

sa-lam ¢Assur Sa a-na libbi Ti-amat 
sal-ti illak(ku) sa-lam ™4Sin-ahé?'- 
eriba Sar 'A&Sur 


14, 


10. 


. holding 


. I had not repaired (welded). 


. this therein I—. 


141 


when Assur was not yet overpowering 
Tiamat, and facing the beasts whom 
Tiamat was bringing on, 


. how these were advancing on foot 


back(?)); thei... <. In 
obedience to the command of Sham- 
ash and Adad [that which] 


. I wrote (i.e., described in words) 


upon that gate, I (also) engraved 
(thereon) gold, 
copper,—, 


silver, 


. I set up. Vessels of silver, gold, 


copper (whose weight ranged ?) from 
half 


. to 1 shekel, were welded together 


or ae the skilled 


their beauty, 


designer of 


. the repairer of their injuries (cracks), 


Tam able (7 or, wish). . 2 .. If this 


—of copper 


. at the gate of life(?) thou dost place, 


say(?): “King of the gods, Assur, the 
gods, my begetter, 

Te ey eee es the place of the 
image of Assur and the image of the 
great gods, 


. as many as advanced to battle with 


him into the midst of that Tiamat, 
its—, its injury 

For 
their—, that I might learn( ?) 

On learning this 
therein, that that injury (existed), 
I repaired it.” 

(This is) the image of Assur as he 
advances to battle into the midst, 
of Tiamat, the image of Sennacherib, 
king of Assyria, 


142 


Rev. 


Hip 


12. 


13. 


14. 


15. 


on 


. ™4Sin-aheé?'-ertba 


Ohae 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


4Sdr-tir 4Sdr-gaz 4Ga-ga 4Nusku 11. of Shar-ur, Shar-gaz, Gaga, ‘Nusku, 


4Daianu *Tispak “MAS 84 dari 
4Ku-bi =¢*Ha-ni = *Sibittu. — an-nu-te 
ilani®! Sa ina pani 4A SSur al-la-ku 
4NIN-LIL @Se-ru-u-a 4Sin ¢NIN- 
GAL 4Samas *Aia *Gam-lat 

44-num An-tum *Adad 4Sa-la ¢E-a 
4Dam-ki-na 

4Be-lit ilaniv' (MAS an-nu-ti ildni?! 
Sa arki “Assur allaku(ku)| 


. [ana]-ku ka-si-du ina “narkabti 4A ssur 


Sak-nu 


. [Ti]-amat a-di nab-nit kir-bi-su 


12. 


13. 


14. 


15. 


2. 


Daianu, Tishpak, Mash of the Wall, 
Kubu, Hani, Sibitti—these gods who 
were advancing in front of Assur, 
Ninlil, Sheru’a, Sin, Ningal, Shamash, 
Aia, Gamlat, 

Anu, Antum, Adad, Shala, Ea, Dam- 
kina, 

the mistress of the gods, Mash,— 
these gods who are behind Assur. 


. Iam the one who conquers, stationed 


in Assur’s chariot. 
Tiamat and the creatures inside her. 


c) INSCRIPTION ON STONE BLOCK FROM THE TEMPLE OF 


THE NEW YEAR’S 


If 
2. 


. ™4Sin-aheé?'-eriba sar kissate 
. Sar "Assur épes(es) sa-lam 4A SSur 


. urlani rabite?! 
. Bit-a-ki-tt Su-a-ti 


VYA 


. ul-tt ussi-sa a-di gab-dib-bi-sa 


. tna %y7-1-li aban Sadi(t) 
. U-zak-kir hur-sa-nigs 


iN 


FEAST (13) 

Sennacherib, the king of the universe, 
king of Assyria, maker of the image 
of Assur 


. and the great gods, 
. that Temple of the New Year’s Feast 
. from its foundation to its upper-walls 


(that is, both its foundation and its 
upper walls) 


6-7. I built mountain high of mountain 


limestone. 


d) THE SAME (14) 


Sar kissatt Sar 


LA SSur 


. 6pes(es) sa-lam ¢Assur 4A-nim 4Sin 


. amas ¢Adad 4Nergal ¢Istar 


bit Kid-mu-ri *MAH wu aldni 
rabite®’ ana-ku 


. [Sd] Bit-d-ki-ct mu-sab 4A Ssur béli-ia 
. [ina] %"ni-li pise(e) te-min-su ad-di 


L 


2. 


3. 
4. 


Sennacherib, the king of the universe 
king of Assyria, 

maker of the image (statue) of Assur, 
Anu, Sin 

Shamash, Adad, Nergal, Ishtar 

of the Kidmuru-temple, Mah, and the 
great gods, am I. 


5-6. I built (laid) the foundation-plat- 


form of the temple of the New 
Year’s Feast, the dwelling of Assur, 
my lord, of white limestone. 


Oo oF W DO 


oo NI 


- 10. 


. épes(eX) sa-lam ¢A sur 4Ser-u-a 

. 4A-nim 4Sin 4Samas 4Adad 

. Tstar sa bit "Kid-mu)-ri (MAH 

. Ga-ga *Ha-ni *Ki-bi(KUG-SUD) 
. ?DUB(Balag?) @Nergal' 4|NIN]- 


. u ildéni rabiite”’ [ana]-ku 
. te-me-en Bit-a-ki-ti i-sin-ni 


“THE TEMPLE OF THE NEW YEAR'S FEAST” 143 


e) THE SAME (15) 


. ™@Sin-aheé?'-eriba sar kissatt sar 1. 


YA SSur 


Oo or W WD 


GAL-KI-'MAH' 


CO NI 


. ki-ri-ti *AsSur ina pi-la 9. 
aban Sadi(t) ussi-su ad-di 10. 


Sennacherib, king of Assyria, the 
king of the universe, 


. maker of the image of Assur, Sherua 
. Anu, Sin, Shamash, Adad, 

. Ishtar of the Kidmuru-temple, Mah 
. Gaga, Hani, Kubu, 

. Dub, Nergal, Ningal-kimah, 


. and the great gods, am I. 
. The foundation-platform of the 


Temple of the New-Year’s Feast, the 
festival 
of Assur’s banquets, of mountain 

limestone I built (laid) its foundation. 


10. 


. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba 


CHAPTER IX 


MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS 
AND EPIGRAPHS 


I. REPAIRS MADE ON THE TEMPLE EHARSAGKUR- 
KURRA AT ASSUR (17) 


Sarru. rabi Sarru 
dan-nu sar kisgsati sar 'AsSur** Sar 


kib-rat irbittiém(tim) mut-"tar-ru-u] 


. nse?’ rapsate?’ e-pis sa-lam 4A ssur 


4A-nim 4Sin 4Samags 27... 


. *Nergal *Istar Sa bit Kid-mu-ri “(MAH 


au cldni”’ rabiitr?! 


. mu-sak-lil pa-ra-as E-sdr-ra u E-mis- 


y 


mis Sa pa-lih ildni?’ Sa Samé(e) u 
alani?! 


. Assur? ra-big mu-du-u e-pis "A ssurk* 


mu-sak-lil ma-ha-zi-su na-si-ih [mat] 


. na-ki-ri mu-ab-bit da-dd-me-su-un mal- 


ku pit-ku-du sa eli sarrani?’ a-sib 
parakki 


. nu--u-da-at be-lut-su tukulte(tt) méati- 


Su na--id kabli wu tahazi su-lu-lu 


_ ummdandte?'-su a-na-ku i-nu-su H-har- 


sag-gal-kur-kur-ra Sa ki-rib E-sdr-ra 
pa-rak 4A ssur 


. béla rabi(c) béli-ia Sa ul-tu time?! 


rikite?’ si-ma-tu-Su  im-ku-ta-a-ma 
bdbi-su 
pi-tu-u a-na situ ina uend™ (text 


has énd) ra-pa-as-ti Sa ¢4H-a is-ru-ku 


ile 


10. 


144 


. of Assyria. 


Sennacherib, the great king, the 
mighty king, king of Assyria, king 
of the four quarters (of the world), 
ruler of 


. widespread peoples, maker of the 


image of Assur, Anu, Sin, Shamash, — 


. Nergal, Ishtar of the Kidmuru-temple, 


Mah, and the great gods, 


. who restores all (fulfills) the cults of 


Esharra and Emishmish, who fears 
the gods of heaven, and greatly 
befriends the gods 
Maker of Assyria, who 
completes its metropolis, who de- 
stroys the land of 


. the enemy, who destroys their settle- 


ments. Provident prince, whose rule 


. Is exalted above that of (all) kings 


who dwell in palaces; the support of 
his land, terrible in battle and war- 
fare; the 


. (protecting) shadow of his armies, am 


I. When Eharsaggalkurkurra, which 
is in Esharra, the shrine of Assur, 


. the great lord, my lord, whose splen- 


did structure had fallen to ruins since 
days of old;—its door 

opened to the south. In the wisdom 
(lit. wide ears), which Ea gave me, 


El; 


12. 


13. 


14. 


15. 


16. 


17; 


18. 


19. 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS AND EPIGRAPHS 145 


ina si-tk-lu-vi-ti Sa “A SSur ti-Sat-li-man- 
nt 1a-a-st ina te-im ram-ni-ia 
am-tal-lik-ma bdb E-har-sag-gal-kur- 
kur-ra a-na_ na-pa-ah  4Samsi(si) 
mi-cth-rit ™sadt 


pi-ta-a-su ldb-bt —ub-la-an-ni_—_—te-im 
4Samas 4Adad_ al-mad-ma_ an-na 
ki-i-nu 


i-pu-lu-in-mi-ma sa babi su-a-[ti] a-na 
na-pa-ah *Samsi(s¢) mi-ih-rit *™sadt 


4Samag u *Adad ik-bu-u pi-ta-a-Su ina 
Se-me-Su-ma igara an-da-ak-kis-ma 
a-na trat 4Assur béli-ia = mi-ch-rit 
imsadtii bdba ap-te-e-ma_ bdb 
Sarru-'ti! 

Suma-su am-bi bit-Sa-hu-ru es-ses e-pu- 
us-ma bab-su t-rap-pis ina bab bit-sa- 
hu-ru 


es-Sit 


St-a-tu 4 GUD mér 4Samag siparri 
russa(a) e-lig kdta*-Su-nu 4Samsi(s) 
NA-SU-U 

t-kal-lu su-lu-lu sap-lis sépd4-Su-nu 
i-na elt 2 parak siparre 

Sa HA-LU-GAL-LU(nin  améli) 
stparrt Sa Suhur' siparrt Sur-si-du 
gis-gal-la 

imna u suméla sa babi UR-BE (idim- 
me?) w& akrab-amélt kul-lu. si-ga-ri 
babi su-nu-'tu] 

bab harran sti-ut 4En-lil as-sa-kar 
Sum-Su_ kisal-su es-sis ab-ni-ma kisal 
si-dir man-2a-az 


4Tgigi Sum-Su am-bi bdb-su sa a-na 
si-it 4Samsi(s7) a-na muhhi nari bab 
bu-ru-mu 


Ads 


12. 


13. 


14, 


15. 


16: 


Lie 


18. 


1g; 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


with the cleverness with which Assur 
endowed me, I took 

counsel with myself alone, and to 
open the gate of EKharsaggalkurkurru 
to the east (rising sun) instead of the 
south, 

my heart moved me. The will of 
Shamash and Adad I sought to 
learn 

(by oracle), and they vouchsafed me 
(their) enduring grace,—that that 
door should open toward the east 
instead of the south, 

Shamash and Adad commanded. On 
hearing this, I cut through its wall and 
toward the breast of Assur, my lord, 
instead of the south, I opened a new 
door, and I called 

its name Gate of Royalty. The 
Shahuru-temple I built anew, and 
widened its door. In that door of 
the Shahuru temple, 

four (statues) of GUD, son of Sha- 
mash, of burnished copper, raising 
their hands on high to Shamash, 
supported the roof. Below their feet 
rested upon two bronze shrines, 

of copper fish-men (and) of copper 
Suhur-fish. (To) the rooms 


right and left of the gate, fierce dogs 
and scorpion men supported the 
entrances. 

The Door of the Road of Enlil, I called 
its name. Its court I restored and 
called it the Court of the Rows of the 
Stations of the Igigi. 

Its door, opening toward the rising 
sun, and upon the river, I named the 
Burumu (Firmament,)-door. 


146 


24. 


25. 


26. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 


33. 


34.., 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


az-za-kar ni-bit-su bab ni-ri-bi-su a-na 
kisalli ni-rib 4Igigt Sum-Su az-kur 
babu Sa a-na situ bab-kam-su “gigi 
Sum-su am-bt bab ni-ri-bi-su a-na 
kisalla 

bab hi-[sib] mati Sum-Su az-kur bab-su 
Sa a-na *iltdénu bab ***bsumbi Sum-su 
am-bi 


. bab ni-ri-bi-su a-na kisalli bab parak 


Vd 


mate?’ Sum-Su az-kur bab pa-pa-hi 
bit Sa-hu-ru 


igarate?'-Su  a-di kisalli-su_ bitdte?! 
babdate”! ul-tu ussi-su a-di gab-dib-bi-su 
ina si-pir 4Libittu 

u-Sak-lil-si-ma ki-ma Sadt(t) ri-si-su 
ul-li ina nik-lat lib-bi-ia Sa babdte?’ 


Aly 


u 'kisallé-si'-na Sum-su-nu am-bi-ma 
ni-bit-si-na az-kur te-im-me-en-na at-ta 
sa 4 Sin-ahé?'-[eriba] 

Sar ‘Assur ra->-im ki-na-a-ti e-pis sa- 
lam wli-su ba-an bit da-me-tk-ta-su a-na 
2A Sur ki-'bt! 


it-ti Assur®* wu H-Ssdr-ra_ lis-te-li-bu 
lipt (pir-hi)?'-Su  médré?'-Su mdr ér? 
mar é?'-Su it-tt sal-mat kakkadz 


li-ku-nu a-na du-ur da-a-ri ai-wm-ma 
ruba arki(d) sa *AsSur a-na réu-ut 
matt u niséP! 7-nam-bu-u 


Sum-Su Sa ina pali-su bitu su-a-ti 
in-na-hu an-hu-su lid-dis mu-sar-at 
li-mur-ma samna lip-sti-us 


24. 


25. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


dl. 


32. 


33. 


34. 


Its entrance door to the court, I 
called the Entrance of the Igigi. 
The door toward the south, I named 
the Door of Prostration(?) of the Igigi. 
To its entrance door to the court 

I gave the name Door of the Products 
of the Land(s). Its door toward the 
north, I called the Door of the Wagon- 
star. 

Its entrance-door to the court I 
named the Door of the Shrine of 
Fate. The Bab Papahi (Door to 
the Sanctuary) of the Shahuru- 
temple,— 

its walls as well as its court, (its) 
rooms and doors, from its foundation 
to its surrounding wall, 

I completed it in brick (lit. work- 
manship of the brick-god). I raised 
its top (head) mountain-high. In 
the cunning of my heart (artistic 
sense) I gave names to its doors 
and their courts. Thou, foundation 
stela, for Sennacherib, 


king of Assyria, lover of justice, 
maker of the images of his god, 
builder of the temple of his grace, 
to Assur speaks: 

With Assyria and Esharra may his 
offspring prosper; may his sons and 
his grandsons abide among the 
black-headed race 

(of men) for ever and ever. May any 
future prince whose name Assur shall 
call for the rulership (shepherding) 
of land and people, 

in whose reign that temple shall fall 
to ruins, restore its ruins; may he 
Jook upon my memorial stela, anoint 
it with oil, 


MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS AND EPIGRAPHS 


35. niké lik-ki ina as-ri-su lis-kun 4A SSur 
tk-ri-bi-Su. 1-Sim-me mu-nak-kir- mu 
sar-at 

36. da-ai-i-si a-ma-ti-ia 4A SSur Sar ildni?® 
au ildni?! rabite?! 

37. Sa Samé(e) wu irsitim(tim) ar-rat ma- 
ru-us-tu li-ru-ru-su-ma 

38. Sarru-us-su lis-ki-pu baldta-su li-ki- 
mu-su Suma-su zéra-su 

39. pir-hi-su wu na-an-nab-su i-na pi nisé?! 


li-hal-li-ku 


147 


35. offer sacrifices, and restore it to its 
place. And Assur will hear his pray- 
ers. But the destroyer of my stela, 

36. who ignores my word, may Assur, 
king of the gods, and the great gods 

37. of heaven and earth, curse him with an 
evil curse which cannot be removed, 

38. may they overthrow his kingship, 
deprive him of life, 

39. and destroy his name, his seed, his 
kith and his kin, inthe people’s mouth. 


II. FOUNDATION STELA OF A HANI TEMPLE (18) 


1. ["¢Sin-'ahé?'-eriba Sarru rabi Ssarru 
dan-nu Sar kigs-Sa-ti Sar “A SSurk 


2. [Sar kib-rit crbittim(tim)| mut-tar-ru-u 
nse?! rapsate?! 


3. [e-pis sa-lam 4AsSur....] ¢Adad 
4Nergal *Nusku 

4-7, (LOST) 

Boe sea ke. u-Sd-ad-[gil .... 

Ose eal ummaniate®?'-su a-na-ku 

iB ye oe §a-ad|-da-bak-ku Sd mi-nu-tt 
pean Soa 

Vite. Fees 4Ha-ni ili-su-nu t-sar-bi-1 

LDP, ee aa a-na wldn?* rabite 

eee ah ti ildni?' a-na . . 

it Berm ie rt ina mah-ri-a 

Lo. LO ge ces e-pis *Ha-ni 

\ eae 18. [wl-tu] wsst-Su a-di gab-dib- 


bi-su t-sak-lal 
19. ¢Ha-ni itlusé *"dupsarré?' G-sar-ma-[a 


20. te-im-me-na at-ta sé ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba 
Sar 'Assur* 'ruba(u) 


1. Sennacherib, the great king, the 
mighty king, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria, 

2. king of the four quarters of the earth, 
ruler of widespread peoples, 


3. maker of the images of Assur 
erate 5 Adad, Nergal, Nusku 

4-7, (Lost) 

a arse LOL WHOM si, . ss has made 
subject 

Sree eae his armies, am I. 

1OF aor ee the shaddabak whose appear- 
ance was... . 

BAT Gaels of Hani, their god, I made 
great 

[25a for the great gods, 

Loa gods, for 

14 eee before me 

LOR ca mecae 

Whi seek ree to build (for?) Hani, 

Vine 


18. from its foundation to its walls I 
finished. 

19. Hani, god of the scribes, I made to 
dwell (therein). 

20. Thou foundation(-stela), for Sen- 
nacherib, king of Assyria, the prince, 


148 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


28. 


AY, 


on 


. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


e-pis sa-lam *Assur w& alan?!’ rabiitr? 
ba-an_ bit-da-me-ik-ta-su a-na [4A ssur 
ki-bi| 

mar é?'-Su madr-mar é?'-Su it-ti sal-mat 
kakkadi li-ku-nu a-na du-ur da-[a-ri] 
ai-um-ma rubi(u) arki(u) sé 4*AsSur 
a-na r@u-ut mati u nise?? 

i-nab-bu-u Sum-su sé ina pali-su bitu 
Stu-a-th in-na-hu 


. an-hu-us-su lu-dig mu-sar-& li-mur-ma 


samna lip-si-us 


3. “niké Wk-ki ina as-ri-su lis-kun Assur 


uw 4Is-tar tk-ri-bi-Su i-sim-me 


. mu-nak-kir mu-sar-ai da-ai-i-st a-ma- 


ti-ia 4ASSur sar aldni??’ ui aldni?? 
rabite?! 

$d Samé(e) Ww irsitim(tim) ar-rat la 
nap-su-rt ma-ru-us-th li-ru-ru-su-ma 
Sarru-su lis-ki-pu balata-su li-ki-mu-su 
Sum-Ssu zéra-su pir-hi-su na-an-nab-su 


ina pi-t nisé?! li-hal-lik 


NORE. 


Sar kissatt Sar 
1A sSur 


e-pis sa-lam 4A ssur ildniP® 


rabati”’ ana-ku sa kisal E-sdr-ra 
ekal alani?? ina &“yi-li-[e] 


~te-min-su ad-dt 


21. 


sm 


maker of the images of Assur and 
the great gods, builder of the temple 
of his grace, to Assur speak: 


(The blessing and curse which follow 
are the same as in the preceding in- 
scription, ll. 32b. f.) 


SLAB FROM THE COURT OF ESHARRA (115) 
1: 


Sennacherib, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria, 

maker of the images of Assur (and) 
the great 

gods,amI. Of the court of Esharra, 
the palace of the gods, the foundation- 
platform 

I laid with limestone (slabs). 


IV. BRICK FROM THE SAME TEMPLE AT ASSUR (116) 


. a-na 4Assur abu ilani”! béli-su 
. ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar 'As-sur 
. e-pts sa-lam “Assur wu ildni rabiiti?! 


. ni-bi-hi sa-met E-sdr-ra 
. tna a-gur-rt_ abné?! ma-?-dis t-si-im 


ih 
. Sennacherib, king of Assyria, 


Cr 


For Assur, father of the gods, his lord, 


maker of the image(s) of Assur and 
the great gods, 
the cornice of the wall of Esharra, 


. with burnt-brick blocks (stone) has 


beautified exceedingly. 


MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS AND EPIGRAPHS 


149 


V. BROKEN INSCRIPTION CONCERNING THE SAME TEMPLE (117) 


Ms 


“I 


10. 


club 
12. 
13. 


14. 


a-na “Assur (An-Sar) Sar kis-sat 


tlani?’ ba-nu-u ram-ni-su ab ildniP! 


. &4 ina apst iws-mu-hu gat-tu-us sar 


Samé(e) u irsitim (tim) 


. bél ilani?! ka-la-ma sa-pi-ik “Tgigi u 


44 -nun-na-ki 


. pa-ti-ik ir-mi *A-nim wu ki-gal-li e-pis 


kul-lat da-dd-me 


. a-stb bu-ru-mu .ellati?! 4Hn-lil alana?! 


mu-sim Ssimate?! 


. a-sib E-Sdr-ra sa ki-rib A&SSur** béli 


rabi(2) béli-su | Sin-ahé?'-leriba 


. Sar 'AsSurk* e-pis sa-lam 4Assur u 


alani?! rabiti?! a-[na] 


. arak (GID-DA) timé?'-su tub(ub) lib- 


bi-su kun palé-[su] 


. lilis(LI-LI-ES) siparri russa(a) pi-ti- 


1. 


on 


To Assur, king of all the gods, creator 

of himself, father of the gods, .... 

. whose form developed in the deep 
(apst), king of heaven and earth, 

. lord of all of the gods, who pours 
out the Igigi and the Anunnaki, 

. fashioner of the abode of Anu (heaven) 
and the earth’s surface, maker of all 
habitations, 

. who dwells in the shining spheres 
(constellations), Enlil (lord) of the 
gods, who decrees destinies, 

. who dwells in Esharra, which is in 
Assyria, the great lord,! Sennacherib, 

. king of Assyria, maker of the image of 
‘Assur and the great gods, for 

. the lengthening of his days, the 
happiness of his heart, the stability 
of his reign, 

. a drum of burnished (red) copper, 


be haan! Pe | OL Peet workmanship, 

Sa ina si-pir “IGI-DUG-GU e- .... 10. which according to the workmanship 
of the god IGI-DUGGU, was 

nak-lis %-Se-pis-ma a-na sd- ..... 11. skilfully made, andfor..... 

u nu-uh lib-bi-Su.. ... 12. and for the peace of his heart... . 

NE ee a roe 13. on the fifth day and the seventh 
ORY puasee a 

Se eer UE ESATO Rea eee 

VI. INSCRIBED SLAB FROM THE COURT OF ESHARRA (118) 


. "4 Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissate 
. Sar ‘Assur e-pis sa-lam “Assur 


. utldni®! rabiti?! ana-ku sa kisal 


. B-sdr-ra ekal ilani?? 
. tna "ni-li pisé(e) te-min-su addi (RU) 


1 Going back to Assur in 1. 1. 


bo 


. Sennacherib, king of the universe, 

. king of Assyria, maker of the images 
of Assur 

. and the great gods, am I. 
of the court 

. of Esharra, the temple of the gods, 

. I laid with white limestone. 


The floor 


150 THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


~J 


VII. INSCRIPTION ON A SLAB FROM ASSUR (119) 


. ™*Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sar kissati 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe, 

. Sar ‘Assur epis(es) sa-lam 2. king of Assyria, maker of the 
images 

. “Assur(SAR) wu ildni?* rabitel?' ana- 3. of Assur and the great gods, (am I). 


ku] 


VIII. INSCRIPTION ON BRICKS FROM A SHRINE AT ASSUR (120) 


. 4 Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissati Sar 'ASsur 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe, 


épis(es) (v. e-pis) sa-lam 4A SSur u(v. w) king of Assyria, maker of the image(s) 
alan’ rabtte?! of Assur and the great gods 


. ana-ku bit-ti-ka-a-ti §a(?) kisal sa-ad- 2.am I. The _ bit-tikdte (house of 


rum (v.71?) man-za-az *Tgigt ropes ?) of the court where the Igigi 
stand in line(?), 


. ina a-gur-ri uttini elliti(ti, v. te) es-sis 3. I built of bright oven-bricks and 


u-se- pis-ma u-zak-kir (v. t-za-kir) raised mountain high. 
hur-sa-nis 


IX. BRICK FROM A PALACE AT ASSUR (121) 


. ekal 4 Sin-ahé?'-eriba 1. Palace of Sennacherib 
. Sarru rabtii(u) Sarru dan-nu Sar kigatt 2. the great king, the mighty king, king 
Sar ‘Assur of Assyria. 


X. INSCRIPTION ON A LIMESTONE BLOCK FROM ASSUR (122) 


. ana (vs. a-na)-ku ™Sin (vs.™Sin)- 1. I am Sennacherib, 


ahé?'-eriba 


. Sar "Assur (vs. As-Sur) é@pes(eS) sa-lam 2. _king of Assyria, maker of the image(s) 


dA SSur of Assur 


.u tdni(AN-ME) rabiti(GAL-ME) — 3. and the great gods, this temple 


bitu an-nu-u (v. %) 


. a-na (vs. ana) Assur (v. As-Sur) ili- 4. for my god Assur, for the life 
ia(AN-MU) ana baléti-Su (TI(L)- 
LA-BI) 

. mar-ia kud-din-nu (v. ni) Sa ina sépad _—‘5. of my younger son, who was begotten 
4A Ssur (v. adds 7b-ba-nu-w) at the feet of Assur, 

. epus(us. vs. om.)-ma ina pi-t-li 6. I have built, of limestone (blocks), 

. aban Sadi(z) ussd-su 7. mountain-stone, its foundation 

. ad-di 8. I have built (laid). 


Ee wwe 


MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS AND EPIGRAPHS 151 


XI. THE SAME (123) 


. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba 1. Sennacherib. 

. Sar "Assur bita-a-na 2. king of Assyria, (this) palace 
. ana *Asgur ili-ia ana bala ti-su 3. for Assur, my god, for his life 
. epus-(us) ; 4. has built. 


XII. INSCRIPTION FROM THE MUSHLAL AT ASSUR (124) 


. ™Sin-aheé?'-eriba Sar kisSati Sar ‘Assur 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe, 


king of Assyria, 


2. épes(es) sa-lam 4AsSsur wu ildni?’ 2. maker of image(s) of Assur and the 
rabite?’ ana-ku great gods, am I. 

3. mus-la-lum ekalli Sa ki-rib 3. The mushlal' of the palace which is in 

4. Assur (BAL-TIL-K1) ina %"pi-i-lu —_4.. Assur (the city),—of limestone blocks, 

5. aban sadi(z) ussa-su ad-di 5. mountain-stone, I built its foundation. 

XIII. BRICK FROM ROYAL SEPULCHRE AT ASSUR (125) 

1. ekal tap-si-uh-te 1. The palace of repose, 

2. su-bat da-rat 2. the eternal abode, 

3. bitu kima 'Samé-irsitim! Sur-sti-du 3. the house established firm as heaven 
and earth, 

4. sa ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sarru rabi 4. belonging to Sennacherib, the great 
king, 

5. Sarru dan-nu sar kissati sar 'ASs-Sur 5. the mighty king, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria. 

XIV. THE SAME (126) 

1. ekal sa-la-li 1. The palace of rest (sleep), 

2. ki-mah tap-si-uh-te 2. the sepulchre of repose, 

3. stu-bat da-ra-a-ti 3. the eternal abode, 

4. Sa ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kisgate Sar 4. of Sennacherib, king of the universe, 


YA S-Sur king of Assyria. 


XV. BRICK FROM PALACE BUILT AT ASSUR FOR 
ASSUR-NADIN-SHUM (127) 


. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissatt Sar 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe, 


1A §-Sur king of Assyria, 


. e-pis sa-lam ¢Assur u ildni®’ rabiti?' 2. maker of the image(s) of Assur and 


ana-ku the great gods, am I. 


1 Some sort of stairway or incline leading up to the palace. 


on 


NO OF e 


() 


10. 


hi 


13. 


14. 


. (v. ta)-da-at 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


. bitu a-nu-u ana ASs-Sur-nddin-sumu 


GAL-TUR-ia 


. epus-ma ina %"pi-1-li aban Sadi(t) 


VYA 


. ussd-su ad-di ina si-pir ¢Libittu 


. U-Se-pis-ma 
7. u-zak-ki-ir hur-sa-nig 


XVI. 


sa ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar 'AS§-Sur 


XVII. 


. ™4Sin-ahé”'-eri-ba 
. Sarru raba sarru dan-nu Sar kissati 


. Sar "Assur Sar kib-rat irbittim(tim) 


. mi-gir clan’ rabiitir! 


4A SSur u “T8-tar (v. [star) 


. ka-ak (v. “kak) la ma-har 
. U-Sat-li-mu-in-ni-ma 
. a-na ra-sa-ab nak-ru-ti ‘A Sur tp-tu-u 


i-na_—_tu-kul-ti-Su-un 
rabitim (tim) 

ul-tu si-tdn a-di Sil-la-an um-ma-na- 
ti-va 

Sal-mes lu at-ta-bal-ma gim-ri (v. gi- 
mir) mal-ki a-sib pa-rak-ki 


. $& kib-rat ar-ba-1 Se-pu-u-a u-sak-nis- 


Ma 

1-St-tu ap-sa-a-ni 1-na ti-me (v.mt)-su- 
Ma 

$d ‘Ni-na-a al be-lu-ti-ia t-bat-su 


1Hlsewhere mdru rista 


3. This house for Assur-nddin-shum, 
my oldest son,! 

4. I have made and of 
(blocks), mountain-stone, 

5. its foundation I have built. Of 
brick (lit. the work of the brick god) 

6. I have built it, and 

7. mountain high I have raised it. 


limestone 


VASE INSCRIPTION (128) 
. Sal *Tas-me-tum-sar-rat SAL-E-GAL 


1. Belonging to Tashmetum-sharrat, the 
concubine (palace-woman) of Sen- 
nacherib, king of Assyria. 


INSCRIPTION ON TWO STELAS FROM NINEVEH (130) 


1. Sennacherib 

2. the great king, the mighty king, king 
of the universe, 

3. king of Assyria, king of the four 
regions (of the world), 

4. favorite of the great gods. 

5. Assur and Ishtar 

6-7. have given me an invincible weapon, 


8. and have opened my hand for the 
destruction of the enemies of Assyria. 
9. Trusting in their great might, 


10. I led my armies from one end of the 
earth to the other 

11-12. and brought in submission at my 
feet all princes, dwelling in palaces, 
of the four quarters (of the world),— 


13. and they assumed (lit. drew) my 
yoke. At that time 

14. I enlarged the site of Nineveh, my 
royal city. 


16. 


WG 


18. 


19; 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 


27. 


oe Ww — 


“Io 


MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS AND EPIGRAPHS 153 


. us-rab-bi su-ki-sa me-ti-ik gir-rt Sarri 


u-Sa-an-dil-ma ti-nam-mir kima (v.ki- 
ma) ti-me (v. mi) dira 

U Sal-hu-% nak-lis w-se-pis-ma t-zak- 
(v. za)-kir 


hur-sa-nig 100 ina ammati rabitim 
(tim) ha-ri-su-us 

us-rap-pis ah-ra-tas ti-me (v. tmé?) 
gir-ri Sarrt a-na 

la su-uh-hu-ri "nar é?! u-se-pis-ma 


Sé a-hi ul-li-e ina me (v. mt)-hir-ti-Su 
1-2a-ZU 

62 i-na ammati rabitim(tim) Sd gir-ri 
Sarre 

(a-di abil “kiré?") am-st-uh ru-pu-su 
(Vv. us-su) 

ma-ti-ma nisé?! a-si-bu-ut ali Sa-a-Su sd 
bit-su 

la-bi-ru i-nak(v. na-ak)-ka-ru-ma es-su 
i-ban-nu-% 

Sd us-Se biti-Su a-na gir-ri Sarrt ir-ru-ba 


si-ir biti-s% a-na ga-si-si_ il-la-lu-su 
(v. st) 


15. I made its ‘‘market streets” (siks) 
wide (enough to) run a royal road, 

16. and made (it, the road) shine like the 
day. The wall 

17. and outer-wall I caused to be skilfully 
constructed mountain- 
high. 

18. I widened its moat to 100 great cubits. 


and raised 


19. In days to come, that there might 


20. be no narrowing of the royal road, I 
had stelas made 

21. which stand facing each other (lit. on 
that side over against this). 

22-23. 62 great cubits I measured the 
width of the royal road, up to the 
Park Gate. 


24. If ever (anyone of) the people who 
dwell in that city 

25. tears down his old house and builds a 
new one, ‘e 

26. and the foundation of his house 
encroaches upon the royal road, 

27. they shall hang him upon a stake 


(crucify him) over his (own) house. 


XVIII. FRAGMENT OF BUILDING INSCRIPTION (131) 


USSU rel p70, Uns es 
. li-me-it dari Ninula(**)| 
. ki-su-u u-se-pis 


Or 108 08 ORO 


eo 8 « @¢€ «® 


. Sa kabal ali mi-[th]-rat(?) .... 

. ri-ba-ti-Su-un u-sa-an-dil-[ma_ bi-ri-e- 
ti ul 

. su-ka-a-ti us-par-di [u-nam-mir kima 
ame} 


Palace anwar 

. that the work . . 

. the circuit of the wall of Nineveh.... 
. A retaining-wall I caused to be 


Or Re WwW 


MAGE... aoe ake 
. which is in the city .... 
. Its squares I widened... . 


“Io 


8. its streets I adorned. .... 


154 


10. 


ie 


12, 


13. 


14. 


16. 


17, 


18. 


19. 


20. 


21. 


22. 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


. tna mi-th-rit abulli kabal ali i-na( ?) 


[a-gur-ri 2"n1-2-la pi-si-e] 

a-na me-ti-ik narkabti belu-ti-ia u-se- 
[pes ti-tur-ru] 

mu-sar-a ab-ni-ma li-i-tu u da-na-nu 
[Sa ina tukul-ti (*)Assur béli-ia] 


kul-lat 
mimma e-pis kdtd-1a u-Ssa-as-tir |ki- 
rib-su] 

it-tu mu-sar-e mal-ki a-li-kut 


ela na-ki-ri as-tak-[ka-nu] 


. ina dirt kabal dli sa Ninua(**) al 


be-[lu-ti-ta] ..... 
a-na sarrani maré-ia e-zib ah-[ra-tas] 


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Sa *Assur a-na be-lut mati wu [nisé 
i-nam-bu-u 2i-kir-su] 

e-nu-ma dtru Su-a-tu 7-lab-bi-ru-[ma 
i-na-hu an-hu-sa lu-ud-dis| 
mu-sar-u Si-tir = Sumi-ia 
Samni lip-su-us] 


li-mur|ma 


luntké lik-ki a-na as-ri-[su li-tir] 


(Assur u(4)Is-tar tk-ri-[bi-su_ 1-sim- 
me] 


9: 


10. 


11. 


12. 


13. 


14. 


15. 


16. 


Lk 


18. 


19. 


20. 


21. 


22. 


Opposite the gate inside the city 
of burnt-brick and white limestone 

I built a [bridge] for the driving of 
my royal chariot. .... 

I fashioned memorial stelas and wrote 
thereon the might and power which, 
with the aid of Assur, my lord, 

I imposed upon all my enemies (as 
WEARS ses ces 

all the works of my hands. 


With the stelas of princes who went 


in the wall within the city of Nineveh, 
my TOyal clvy, «ae 

I left them for the days to come to the 
kings, my s0ns eo 

When [in the reign of any] of my 
sons . 

whom Assur [shall call by name] to 
rule over land and [people], 

that wall shall become old [and fall 
to ruins, let him restore its ruins], 
let him look upon the memorial with 
my name inscribed, [and anoint it 
with oil], 

let him offer sacrifices [and return it] 
to its place. 

Then Assur and Ishtar [will hear] his 
prayers. 

That which is on the memorial. . . 
which Sennacherib, (?) .... 


XIX. SLABS FROM WALL OF NINEVEH (129) 


. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissati 
. Sar ‘Assur dira u Sal-hu-u 


. Sa Ninua™ es-sts u-Se-pis-ma 
. t-zak-kir hur-sa-nig 


. Sennacherib, king of the universe, 
. king of Assyria. 


The wall and outer 
wall 


. of Nineveh I built anew and 
. raised mountain-high. 


MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS AND EPIGRAPHS 15! 


or 
Cr 


XX. BRICK FROM NERGAL TEMPLE AT TARBISI (132) 


. a-na *Nergal béli-su 1. For Nergal, his lord, 

. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba 2. Sennacherib, 

. Sar ‘Assur** ekal-LAM-M ES 3. king of Assyria, the Meslam-palace, 
. Sa ki-rib ¢Tar-bi-st 4. which is in Tarbisi, 

. ul-tt% usst-su a-di gab-dib-bi-su 5. foundation as well as walls (from its 
foundation to its walls) 


6. epus(us) u-sak-lil 6. has (re)built, has finished. 


oF Wh 


XXI. SLABS FROM SAME TEMPLE (133) 


1. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sarru rabt 1. Sennacherib, the great king, 

2. sarru dan-nu sar kissati Sar ‘Assur 2. the mighty king, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria, 

3. ekal-LAM-MES bit ¢Nergal 3. the Meslam-palace, the temple of 
Nergal, 

4. Sd (v. Sa) ki-rib “Tar-bi-si 4. which is in Tarbisi, 

5. u-Se-pis-ma 5. has caused to be (re)built and 

6. kima t-me us-nam-mir 6. has caused it to shine like the day. 


XXII. CONE INSCRIPTION FROM THE SAME TEMPLE (134) 


1. a-na *Nergal béli-su ™4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba 1. For Nergal, his lord, (I), Sennacherib, 


Sar A&gur*t E-LAM-MES Sa ki-rib king of Assyria, have (re)built the 
eTar-bi-st ultu ussi-su a-di gab-dib- Meslam-temple which is in Tarbisi— 
bi-su its foundation as well as its walls; 
2. ana baldti-ia sa-lam zéri-ia za-kap 2. for my life, the welfare of my seed, 
amnakiré?'-ia isir ebtri sa 'Assur** the overthrow of my enemies, the 
Sa-lam 4Assur epus(us) 2t-ka-a-te [as- success of the harvests of Assyria and 
kun] the welfare of Assyria, and I have set 


up votive-cones (pahalli). 


XXIII. BRICK FROM THE TEMPLE AT KAKZI (135) 


1. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissate Sar 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe, 


1A SSur** king of Assyria, 
2. dira u sa-al-hu sé “Kak-zi 2. the wall and outer wall of Kakzi! 
3. i-na(?) a-gur-ri ti-Se-pis 3. has built of brick. 


1 From a letter, Harper, 389, 8f., we learn that Sennacherib restored a palace at Kakzi for the use 
of Naki’a, his queen. 


156 


10. 
13 


12. 


13. 


14. 


15. 


. *Sin-ahé?'-eriba 


. la-as-su-ni 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


XXIV. A COLLECTION OF EPIGRAPHS (136) 


kissatt = Sar 


‘Assur i-na Sadé?! dan-nu-tt 


Sar 


. &4é bal-ti Sd-ri-? ha-a-mu hu-sa-bu i-na 


lib-bi 


vgu-up-ni dan-nu-ti sd 


"e-a-11 


. t-na lib-bi S§e-ru--ti-ni Sa-a-ru dan-nu 
. ka-ai-ma-nu_ i-na_ bir-tu-us-sti-nu_a- 


la-ku 


. la i-par-ra-az i-na sa-ka-a-ni sé ma- 


dak-ti-ia 


. bal-tu Sanai(%) i-na libbi-si mas-ka-na 


la ub-la 


. ana-ku a-di ummadnadte °'-ia u%-sa-am- 


ri-is ina eli-Su-nu 
ar-ti-di 

Bit-"Ku-bat 
md Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sar ‘Kar- 
4Dun-ia-as 
ti-ib tahdz-1a e-dur-ma *“°“su-ba-tu 
be-lu-ti-su 
u-sar-rit-ma ul-tu °‘Babili ur-ru-hi-1s 
U-st 
mSi-eu-bu sarru NI-ZI &4 Sarrut(ut) 
Babil® ra-ma-nu-us 
a-tir-ru har-ba-su ta-ha-zi-1a im-ku-su 
-ma 


i 


9: 
10. 
1a 
12. 
15. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
Lye 


18. 
19; 


Sennacherib, king of the universe, king 
of Assyria, in the mighty mountains, 


. wherein there is no abundant (plant)- 


life—(neither) hému (nor) husdbu,! 


. (but) wherein mighty wild grape- 


vines thrive; 


. no strong, steady wind 
. delays progress (going) among them: 


. Into the (place) where I pitched my 


camp, 


. no other (second) living being made his 


halt (lit. brought his camping-place). 


. Over them (these mountains) I and 


my armies, laboriously struggling, 
passed. 

Bit-Kubat 

Merodach-baladan, king of Baby- 
lonia, 

feared the onset of my battle, 


rent his royal robe and hastily left 
Babylon. 

Shuzubu, the terrified king, 
turned the 

kingship of Babylon to himself,— 
terror of my onset fell upon him and 
he became despondent(?), from the 
back of (his) horse 

he fell to the ground. 

Sumer 

Meluhha( ?) 


who 


XXV. EPIGRAPH: SENNACHERIB AT LACHISH (137) 


16. zr-sa-a na-ah-tt ul-tu si-ir sist kak-ka- 
ris 
Lifes im-ku-ut 
18. “Sumer 
eM e( ?)-luh( ?)-ha 
1. "4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kisSatt Sar 
LA SSur 
2. ina “kusst ni-me-di %-sib-ma 
3. Sal-la-at ‘La-ki-su 
4. ma-ha-ar-su e-ti-ik 


1Cf. AJSL, XXXVII, 166. 


Me 


ice) 


Sennacherib, king of the universe, 
king of Assyria, 


. Sat upon a throne (lit. standing-chair) 
. (while) the booty of Lachish 
. passed before him. 


MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS AND EPIGRAPHS 157 


XXVI. EPIGRAPH OVER CITY OF DILBAT (138) 


1. Dil-bat** al-me aksud(ud) 1. Dilbat I besieged, I conquered, 
2. as-lu-la sal-la-su 2. I carried off its spoil. 
XXVII. EPIGRAPH OVER CITY OF BIT KUBATTI (139) 
1. °Bit-Ku-bat-ti al-me ak-sud(ud) 1. Bit-Kubatti I besieged, I conquered, 
2. as-lu-la Sal-la-su ina girrt ak-mu 2. I carried off its spoil, with fire I 
burned it. 
XXVIII. EPIGRAPH OVER AN UNKNOWN CITY (140) 
1 RG Seta Sd? (da?al?)-am-mu al-me 1..... ammu I besieged ..... 
laksud(ud)| 

2. [as-|lu-la sal-la[su] 2. I carried off its spoil. 

XXIX. EPIGRAPH OVER THE KING IN HIS CHARIOT (141) 
1. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba [Sar] kissate 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe, 
2. sar 'Assur* [Sallat] 2. king of Assyria. [The booty] 
3. *Ka-su-si(?) 3. of Kasusi( ?) 
4. ma-har-su [e-ti-ik] 4. passed before him. 

XXX. EPIGRAPH:SENNACHERIB RECEIVING THE 
TRIBUTE OF THE MARSHES (142) 
1. 4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kisSatt Sar 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe, 
1A SSur king of Assyria, 

2. sal-la-at "a-gam-me 2. booty from the marshes 
3. Sa “Sa-ah-ri-tt 3. of Sahriti 
4. ma-ha-ar-sv% e-ti-vk 4. passed before him. 

XXXI. EPIGRAPH OVER THE CAMP OF THE KING (143) 
us-man-nu sa (v. §4) ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Camp of Sennacherib, king of Assyria. 
Sar ‘Assur 

XXXII. EPIGRAPH OVER HIS TENT (144) 
1. za-ra-tum 1. Tent 
2. s4™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba 2. of Sennacherib, 
3. sar Assur 3. king of Assyria.! 


1 The tent is just back of the king’s throne at Lachish. 


Col. 


18. 


19. 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 
25. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 
ol. 


32. 


CHAPTER X 


EXCERPTS FROM THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLE 
AND THE HELLENISTIC SOURCES 


EXCERPTS FROM THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLE (CT, XXXIV, 46 f.) 


II 
omBdabila”’ ul usappthu mi-is-ri [mati- 
Su! 


ir-tib-ma  ‘%Marduk-apla-iddina u 
hu-bu-ut mdti-su th-ta-bat wu... . - 
Su 

cLa-rak u¢Sar-ra-ba-[nu] ...... Su 
kit urakki-su(su) ‘%Bél-ib-ni ina 


Babili®* ina kusst ul-te-sib 
Sattu [* 4B él-ib-ni *Sin-ahé?'-eriba 


¢Hi-ri-im-ma wu °Ha-ra-ra-tum th-te-pi 
Sattu [[T* ™4Bél-ib-ni 4Sin-ahé?'- 
ertba ana 'Akkad«* 

ur-dam-ma_ hu-bu-ut 'Akkad«** th-ta- 
bat 

m4 Bél-ib-ni wu *rabite?'-su ana 'Assur 
ul-te-ik-lu 

IIT Sandati?! *Bél-ibni Sarru-ut Babila®* 
epus (us) 
4Sin-ahé?'-eriba 
mara-su 

ina Babili*' ina kusst ul-te-Sib 

Sattu. [kom 4A ssur-nddin-sumu_ Is-tar- 
hu-un-du sar Elamte 

Hal-lu-su ahu-su is-bat-su-ma baba ina 


44 §Sur-ndadin-sumu 


pani-su vp-hi 


1 Lit. ‘closed the door in his face.”’ 


18. 


1g) 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 
25. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 
dl. 


32. 


158 


The Babylonians had not overstepped 
(broken across?) the border of [his 
land]. 

But he (Sennacherib) became en- 
raged(?), Merodach-baladan [fled( ?)] 


he (Sennacherib) plundered his 
levy Pay. 
When he had fortified Larak and 


Sarrabanu [as his outposts], 

he put Bél-ibni on the throne in 
Babylon. 

In the first year of Bél-ibni, Sen- 
nacherib 

overthrew Hirimme and Hararatu. 
In the third year of Bél-ibni, Sen- 
nacherib descended upon Akkad 

and carried off the plunder of Akkad. 


Bél-ibni and his nobles were taken, 
bound, to Assyria. 

Three years Bél-ibni ruled in Babylon. 
Sennacherib placed Assur-nddin- 
shum, his son, 

on the throne in Babylon. 

In the first year of Assur-nddin- 
shum, Ishtarhundu, king of Elam,— 
Hallushu, his brother, seized him 
and imprisoned! him. 


Perhaps it merely means ‘‘locked him out (of the palace).”’ 


Col. 
do. 


34. 


35. 


36. 


or: 


38. 


39. 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44. 


45, 


46. 


47. 


Col. 


THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLE AND 


II 

XVIII Sanédti?' Is-tar-hu-un-du Sarru- 
ut '‘Hlamti epus(us) 

Hal-lu-su ahu-su ina 'Elamti ina kusst 
ittasab(ab) 

Sattu VIF" 44 sSur-nddin-sumu 4Sin- 
ahé?'-eriba 

ana 'Elamti v-rid-ma ‘Na-gi-tum °Hi- 
al-ma 

‘Pi-al-la-tum wu *Hu-pa-pa-nu th-te-pi 


hu-bu-us-su-nu th-ta-bat arkti Hal- 
lu-su Sar Elamti 

ana 'Akkadi** illi-kam(kam)-ma ina 
kit Tasritt ana Sippara*™ erub 


nixér! idak 4SamaX istu E-bar-ra ul 
attase 

md A §Sur-nddin-sumu 
'Klamti a-bi-ik 

VI Ssandti?! 4A SSur-nddin-sumu sarru- 
ut Babilr** epus(us) 

Sar Elamti ¢Nergal-ui-se-zib ina Babili®* 


sabit-ma ana 


ina kusst ul-te-sib 
1A SSur ittaska(an) 
Sattu [ko ™4Nergal-u-se-[zib] 7" Dazu 
amu XV [kam 

m4 N ergal-ti-se-zib Nippuru** isbat(bat) 
SUR-SUR SA(?)-NI-LAL 
erebTasritu imu I**™" sdb ‘Assur ana 
Uruk** erubt 


Ill 


Imabalkutu(tu)™ 


Y 


. lan" sa su-ut Uruk** u nisé?'-su 


th-tab-tu 


. Nergal-i-Se-zib arkt Elam, illik-ma 


alani?! Su-ut Uruk** 


. u nisé?!-sy i-te-tk-mu “ Tasritu imu 


VII ina pi-hat Nippuri* 


1 Tdeogram probably KIJ-BAL-tu. 


33. 


34. 


35. 


36. 


Oo”. 


38. 


39. 


40. 


41. 


42. 


43. 


44, 


46. 


47. 


THE HELLENISTIC SOURCES 159 


Eighteen years Ishtarhundu ruled 
in Elam. 

Hallushu, his brother ascended the 
throne in Elam. 

In the sixth year of Assur-nddin- 
shum, Sennacherib 
descended upon Elam, 
Nagitu, Hilmu, 

Pillatu, Hupapanu, and plundered 
them. 

Thereupon, Hallushu, king of Elam, 


destroyed 


came against Akkad, entered Sippar 
toward the end of the month of 
Tashritu, 

and slew the inhabitants. 
did not leave Ebarra. 
Assur-nadin-shum was captured and 
carried off to Elam. 

Six years, Assur-nddin-shum ruled 
as king in Babylon. 

The king of Elam placed Nergal- 
ushézib on the throne in Babylon 

and invaded (or, defeated) Assyria. 


Shamash 


. In the first year of Nergal-ushézib, 


the 16th of the month Tammuz, 
Nergal-ushézib took Nippur 
ended the lamentation( ?). 

The first of Tashritu the Assyrian 
army entered Erech. 


and 


. The gods of Erech and its inhabitants 


they plundered. 


. Nergal-ushézib joined (lit. went after) 


the Elamite(s) and so the gods of Erech 


. and its inhabitants were carried off. 


On the seventh day of the month 
Tashritu 


160 


Col. 
4, 


10. 


Li 


12. 


13. 


14. 


16. 


1% 


18. 


RSP 


. Kudur 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


III 
sal-tum ana libbi sdb ‘Assur epus(us)- 
ma tna tahdz séri sa-bit-ma 


. ana "Assur a-bi-ik sattu I VI arhér! 


4N ergal-t-Se-zib 


. Sarru-ut Babili®* epus(us) 7 Tasritu 


amu XX V [em 


. Hal-lu-su sar Elamti nisé?'-su is-hu- 


Su-ma baba ina pani-sul[su] 


. tp-hu-t idiki-su VI sandate?’ Hal-lu-su 


Sarru-ut 'Elamti epus(us) 

ina 'Klamtt ina 
ittaSab(ab) arka 4Sin-ahé?'-eriba 
ana 'EKlamti v-rid-ma istu 'Ra-a-si a-di 


kusst 


Bit-bur-na-ki 
ih-ta-bat 
Mu-se-zib-¢Marduk ina Babili** ina 
kusst ittaSab(ab) 

Sattu [ko Mu-se-zib--Marduk “Abu 
amuck VIIA SVL jee 


ih-te-pt — hu-bu-ut-su 


Kudur gar 'Elamti ina si-hi sa-bit-ma 
dik X arhé?! 


. Kudur Sarru-ut ‘Elamti epus(us) Me- 


na-nu ina 'HKlamte 
ina kusst ittasab(ab) sattu ul idt Me- 
na-nu sab ‘Elamti ‘Akkadi** 


id-ki-e-ma ina °‘Ha-lu-li-e sal-tum ana 
libbi ‘A SSur 

epus(us)-ma nabalkutum(tum) "Assur 
ittaska(an) 

Sattul V Mu-se-zib-4M arduk 7 Nisanu 
amu X Vom 


1Cf. note on Col. II, 32. 


4, 


AU: 


el 


12. 


15. 


14. 


15. 


16. 


Wee 


18. 


19. 


. to Assyria. 


. ruled as king in Babylon. 


. Imprisoned! 


he made an attack upon the Assyrians 
in the province of Nippur. He was 
captured in open battle and carried 
off 

One year and six months 
Nergal-ushézib 

On the 
26th of the month Tashritu 


. his people rebelled against Hallushu, 


king of Elam, 
and slew him. Six 
years Hallushu ruled as king in Elam. 


. Kudur ascended the throne of Elam. 


Thereupon Sennacherib 
descended against Elam, devastated 
the land from Rashi to 
Bit-burnaki and carried off its spoil. 


Mushézib-Marduk 
throne in Babylon. 
In the first year of Mushézib-Marduk, 
on the seventeenth (v. eighth) of 
Ab, 

Kudur, king of Elam, was seized 


ascended __ the 


during an uprising and killed. Ten 
months 
he reigned in Elam. Menanu 


ascended the throne in Elam. 

In an unknown year [it was 691 B.c.], 
Menanu mustered the armies of 
Elam and Akkad, 

made an attack upon Assyria at 
Halulé 

and defeated Assyria.? 


In the fourth year of Mushézib- 
Marduk, on the fifteenth of the 
month Nisan, 


2 Lit. “‘made an attack into Assyria and invaded Assyria.” 


THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLE AND 


Col. III 


20. 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


ny: 


30. 


ol. 


32. 
33. 


. d4. 


35. 


36. 


ov. 


Me-na-nu Sar 'Elamti mi-sit-tum t-mi- 
Sid-su-ma 
pua-su sa-bit-ma at-ma-a la li-? 


ina “"Kisilimu tmu lke mahdzu 
sa-bit Mu-se-zib-¢M arduk 


sa-bit-ma ana "Assur a-bi-ik 

IV sandti?' Mu-se-zib-¢-Marduk sarru- 
ut Babili®* epus(us) 

ina “"%Adaru timu VIT' Me-na-nu 
Sar 'Elamti simdti?! 

IV gsandti?’ Me-na-nu Sarru-ut ‘Elamti 
epus(us) 

Hum-ma-hal-da-su ina 'Klamti ina 
kusst ittasab(ab) 

Sattu VIIIT*™ garru ina Babili®* ‘ul 
1st! rab Dadzu imu [TT 


tldni?? Su-ut Uruk** istu Eridu® ana 
Uruk* eribt | 

ina %"Tasritu imu, X XITT*™ Hum- 
ma-hal-da-su sar Elamti ina isate 


ma-hi-is-ma ina mikit(?)  7[satz] 
imit(ut) VIII sandatir' Hum-ma-hal- 
(text an)-da-Su 

Sarru-ut 'Elamti epus(us) 
Hum-ma-hal-da-su Sant(u) ina 'Elam- 
ti ina kusst ittasab(ab) 

arabTebitu tmu XX*em 4Sin-ahér!- 


eriba Sar ‘Assur 


mdru-su ina si-hi idik-[Su XXIII! 
Sandati?! 4Sin-ahé?'-eriba 

Sarru-ut ‘Assur epus(us) dmu X Xo 
Sa %!Tebit a-di 

amu [lt ga Adar si-ht ima 


‘Assur SA-DIRIG 


20 


21. 


22. 


23. 


24. 


25. 


26. 


27. 


28. 


29. 


30. 


ol. 


32. 
33. 


34. 


30. 


36. 


of. 


THE HELLENISTIC SOURCES 161 


. Menanu, king of Elam, suffered a 
stroke, 

his jaw was locked (mouth seized) 
so that he could not speak. 

On the first of the month Kislimu, 
the city [Babylon] taken, 
Mushézib-Marduk 

was captured and carried to Assyria. 
Four years Mushézib-Marduk reigned 
as king in Babylon. 

On the seventh of the month Adar, 
Menanu, king of Elam, died. 

Four years Menanu reigned as king 
in Elam. 

Hummahaldashu ascended the throne 
in Elam. 

Hight years there was no king in 
Babylon. On the third of the month 
Tammuz 

the gods of Erech returned to Erech 
from Eridu. 

On the 23rd of the month Tashrit, 
Humma-haldashu, king of Elam, was 
seized with fever, 

and died from the attack. 
years Hummahaldashu — 


was 


Hight 


reigned as king in Elam. 
Hummahaldashu the second, ascend- 
ed the throne of Elam. 

On the 20th of the month Tebit, 
his son killed Sennacherib, king of 
Assyria, . 
during an uprising. 
nacherib 

reigned as king in Assyria. 
the 20th of the month Tebit to 
the 2nd of the month Adar the up- 
rising continued in Assyria. 


[23] years Sen- 


From 


162 THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Col. III 


38. "Adar tilmu] XVITI*™ 4A sur-ah- 38. On the 18th of the month Adar 
iddina méru-su ina ‘Assur ina kusst Esarhaddon, his son, ascended the 
ittasab(ab) throne in Assyria. 


Il. EXCERPTS FROM THE HELLENISTIC WRITERS 


a) Eusebius quoting Polyhistor, who no doubt abbreviated the account of Berossos: 


b) 


After the reign of the brother of Sennacherib, and after the reign of Akises over the Baby- 
lonians, before he had ruled thirty days, he was slain by Merodach-baladan. Merodach- 
baladan maintained himself as ruler six months, and he was slain by one, whose name was 
Elibos, and he became king. And in the third year of his reign, Sennacherib, king of the 
Assyrians, levied an army against the Babylonians, engaged them in battle and conquered; 
taking prisoner him and his adherents, he carried them off unto the land of the Assyrians. 
He assumed the rulership over the Babylonians and appointed his son Asordanias as king 
over them; but he himself withdrew unto the land of the Assyrians. 

When he received a report that the Greeks had made a hostile descent upon the land of 
the Cilicians he marched against them, and fought with them a pitched battle, and, after 
many of his troops had been cut down by the enemy, he conquered and upon the spot he 
left a statue of himself as a monument of his victory, and ordered his prowess and heroism 
to be inscribed upon it in the Chaldean character, to hand down the remembrance thereof to 
posterity. And the city of Tarsos, so he says, he built, after the likeness of Babylon, and 
he called the city Tharsis. And after enumerating the various exploits of Sennacherib 
(Sinecherim) he adds he reigned 18 years, and met his end in a conspiracy which was formed 
against him by his son, Ardumuzan. 

So far Polyhistor. 

After Phul his brother Sennacherib reigned. He marched against Babylon with an 
army. He was victorious, captured Sarnelibos alive, and sent him to Assyria. After he 
had become master of Babylon, he set his son Asordanisos as king over Babylon, and himself 
returned to Assyria. When he learned that the Ionians had invaded Cilicia, he hastened 
against them and destroyed many of them. He left behind a victory-stela, setting up his 
image in that place, and writing upon it, in Chaldean characters, the events. He built the 
city of Tarsus, and named it Tarshish. Then he returned, so he says, unto his own land. 
He ruled 18 years, and was slain by his son. This one reigned 8 years, and after him 
Hamugios 21 years, and his brother 21. 

From Abydenos: 

At the same time, the twenty-fifth, who was Senecherib, can finally be recognized among 
the kings. It was he who subjected the city of Babylon to his power, and defeated and sunk 
a Grecian fleet upon the coast of Cilicia. He built also an Athenian temple and erected 
brazen statues, upon which he engraved his own exploits. And he built the city of Tarsus, 
after the plan and likeness of Babylon, that the river Cydnus should flow through Tarsus, 
in the same manner as the Euphrates intersected Babylon. 


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INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 


Abdili’ti, 30, 52 

Abydenos, 162b 

Adad, 44, 75; 63, 1; 78,1; 83, 48; 93, 3; 112, 
87, 88; 186, 5; 137, 29; 140, 3, 8, 12, 13; 
141, 16; 142, 14; 142, d3; 143, 3; 146, 13, 
15; 147,3 

Adapa, 117, 4 

Adinu, 51, 28 

Adummatu, 92, 25; 93, 26 

Ahlamu, 77, 13 

Ahudu, 53, 42 

Aia, 142, 13 

Akamshakina, 53, 46 

Akises, 162a, 1 

Akkabarina, 40, 68 

Akkad, 35, 74; 39, 48; 42, 30; 43, 53; 49, 9; 
54, 54; 77, 12; 79, 138; 83, 49; 93,4; 158, 25, 
26; 159, 39 

Akko, 29, 43 

Akkudu, 28, 16; 59, 28; 68, 13 

Akzibu, 29, 43 

Allallu, 52, 38 

Alumsusi, 79, 10 

Alum-sha-bélit-biti, 40, 74 

Amanus, see Hamanu 

Amartu, 52, 36 

Ambasi, 112, 88 

Ammanana, 107, 56; 121, 45 

Amorite (Amurru), 30, 58; 69, 19; 97, 82; 102, 
78; 132, 68; 140,8 

Anara, 37, 18; 72, 43 

Anu, 78, 1; 142, 14, d2; 143, 3; 144, 2; 149, 4 

Anunaki, 149, 3 

Anzan, 48, 44; 88, 44; 91, 9 

Apin (star), 136, 25 

Arabs, 25, 39; 51, 28; 54, 52; 
92, 22 

Arahtu, 73, 63; 84, 52 

Aramaeans, 25, 39, 49; 42, 22; 49,14; 50, 17; 
bi, wi cers 54; 2, 56) 57, 12, 25667 a7; 
85, 7; 88, 45; 92, 10; 95, 71; 104, 52 

Ardumuzan, 162, Ila, 17 

Arrapha, 27, 6; 58, 26; 68, 12 

Arvad(ite), 30, 52 

Ashdod (ite), 30, 54; 33, 32; 70, 29 

Ashkelon, 30, 61; 31, 66; 69, 20, 21; 70, 29 

Asordanias (Asordanisos), 162, Ila, 7, 21 


57, 12; 70, 31; 


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Asuru, 31, 70 

Assur (city), 50, 19; 55, 60; 57, 16; 64, 28; 
66, 52, 2; 112, 74; 146, 32; 149, 6; 161, 
XII4, 35 

Assur (god), 24, 10, 35; 26, 65; 29, 45; 31, 1; 
33, 50; 39, 54; 44, 62, 72; 45, 76, 78; 48, 4; 
56, 4,11; 58, 20; 62,89; 63, VI1; 73, 53, 156; 
MGs is tio, Lo, ao) 14 81257 62. 36: 
85,3; 88,47; 92,13; 93,3; 94,66; 98, 92, 93, 
94; 101, 62, 63; 102, 91; 107, 47; 112, 74; 
116, 66, 78, 86; 117, 4; 120, 36; 125, 49; 
127, e3; 130, 74, 79, 81; 132, 67; 134, 91; 
185, 3; 136, 22, 25, 27; 187, 40; 138, 45; 
139, 57, 60, 65, 68, b1; 140, 6, 10.11; 141, 5, 6, 
10; 142, 12, 15, 1, c2, d2, 5; 148,3,9; 144, 2, 8; 
145, 11, 16; 146, 31, 33; 147, 35, 36, 3; 148, 
21, 23, 26, 27, ITIZ TV 1, 2; 149, 1,7, VI2; 160, 
VII8, VIIT1, X2, 4, 5; 161, XI8, XTI2, XV2; 
152, XVII5; 154, 11, 18, 22; 155, XXII2 

Assur-bel-usur, 62, 1 

Assur-nadin-shum, 35, 72; 71,37; 76,11; 152, 3; 
158, 28, 29; 159, 35, 41, 42 

Assyria, 23, 2; 25, 53; 26, 63; 28, 26; 30, 64; 
38, 44; 39, 51, 56, 60; 48,1, 5; 55,59; 57, 19; 
59, 31; 63, VIZ; 66, 1; 67,9; 68, 15; 69, 21, 
23; 76, 1, 6; 78, 3; 80, 18; 82, 40; 83, 49; 
85, 1; 87, 26; 88, 44; 89, c2; 91, 24; 93, 1, 4; 
95, 70; 98, 92; 103, 36; 104, 49; 116, 67; 
117, 1; 126, al, 62, cl; 127, d2, e2, 73; 129, 55; 
1327653100, 1,0 77.9" 13, 1479186715, 19: 
138.) 5G; 2189, 58, 017 141, 107. 143, "care. 
143, 1; 144, 1, 5; 146, 31; 147, 1, 20; 148, 1, 
TV2; 1407 75, Vi2° 150, VII2, VIII TX; x2; 
161, X12, X1T2, XITII5, XIV4, XV1; 162, 
XVII, XVII3, 8; 164, XIX2; 155,, XX3, 
XXI2, XXIT1, XXIII1; 156, XXIV1, XXVI1; 
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158, 27; 159, 44,47; 160, 4, 5,18; 161, 23, 34, 
36, 37; 162, 38 


Babili, see Babylonia 

Bab-salimeti, 74, 70 

Babylon, 24, 28; 43, 53, 54; 50, 16; 51, 30; 
56, 8; 67, 5; 88, 43, 49, 50; 91, 3; 92, 11: 
93, 6, 7; 134, 89; 137, 36; 138, 44, 46; 156, 
13, 14; 158, 22, 28, 30; 159, 42, 43; 160, 6, 12; 
161, 24, 28 

Babylonia (Karduniash), Babylonian, 24, 21; 
38, 47; 41, 18; 42, 20, 36; 43, 54; 47, 25; 48, 
6; 49, 15; 56, 5; 66, 4; 76,8; 82, 35, 38; 83, 
46; 85, 6; 87, 27, 28, 34; 88, 36; 89, 53; 90, 14, 
16; 91, 29,7; 92,11, 19; 93,2;156, 11; 158, 18 

Balata(i), 108, 62, 78; 121, 50; 122, 13; 126, a3, 
c2; 129, 63; 132, 74 


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Balti-lishir, 40, 72 

Banaibarka, 31, 70 

Banbakabna, 79, 8 

Banitu, 52, 37 

Baskanu, 51, 28 

Bel, 42, 32; 44, 63 

Bela, 53, 46 

Bel-emurani, 131, note 1 

Bel-ibni, 54, 54; 57, 13; 158, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28 

Beltis, 87, 31, 32; 112, 3; 134, 91; 142, 15 

Beth-Dagon, 31, 69 

Billatu, 38, 38; 75, 83, 95; 77, 29; 86, 20 

Bit-Adini, 43, 47 

Bit-Ahe-iddina, 40, 75 

Bit-Ahlame, 39, 62 

Bit-Ammon(ite), 30, 55 

Bit-Amukkan, 48, 47; 49, 11; 53, 47 

Bit-Arrabi, 39, 65 

Bit-Asusi, 39, 63 

Bit-Bani-ilua, 53, 45 

Bit-Barru, 28, 25; 59, 31; 68, 15 

Bit-Bunaki, 40, 70; 88, 38; 90,18. Cf. fol. 

Bit-Burnaki, 160, 11 

Bit-Dakkuri, 49, 11; 52-53, 39; 73, 64 

Bit-Dini-ilu, 53, 45 

Bit-Gissi, 39, 64 

Bit-Hairi, 39, 55 

Bit-Iltamasama’, 53, 45 

Bit-Ilu-bani, 53, 42 

Bit-Imbia, 39, 64 

Bit-Katpalani, 39, 64 

Spey sae 26, 72; 27,80; 58, 22,24; 67, 10; 

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Bit-Kubatti, 26, 73; 27,5; 58,25; 67, 10; 156, 10; 
157, XXVII1 

Bit-Kudurru, 52, 39 

Bit-Rahe, 52, 38 

Bit-Ri’e, 53, 44 

Bit-Risia, 39, 61 

Bit-Sa’alli, 53, 41 

Bit-Salatutu-akki, 48, 48 

Bit-Salli, 49, 11 

Bit-Sannabi, 52, 36 

Bit-Sillana, 43, 47 

Bit-Taura, 53, 44 

Bit-Ubia, 40, 71 

Bit-Ugga, 140, 3 

Bit-Yakin, 34, 51; 35, 58, 67; 38, 32, 40; 49, 11; 
53, 49; 71, 33, 34, 36; 73, 52; 75, 97; 86, 22; 
87, 25 

Bit-Zabidia, 53, 48 

Bit-Zitti, 29, 42 

Bitati, 52, 37 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


ack (Marrati), 73, 51, 54; 74, 78; 78, 30; 
’ 

Bittaitu, 34, 54; 71, 33 

Biturra, 80, 14 

Borsippa, 49, 15; 92, 11 

Bube, 39, 61 

Budu-ilu, 30, 55 

Buharru, 53, 44 

Bukudu, 25, 47; 43, 48; 49, 13; 54, 56; 57, 15 
Burutu, 39, 65 


Chaldea, 25, 1,37; 47, 25; 67,6; 77,25; 78, 31; 
101, 57; 111, 55; 124, 41; 134, 89 

Chaldeans, 25, 39; 33, 53; 41,20; 48,54; 49, 11; 
50,17; 51, 24, 27; 64, 50, 52; 56, 11; 57, 12: 
71, 33; 73, 64; 75, 82, 97; 76,9; 85, 7; 88, 
45; 96, 71, 72; 97, 87; 104, 52; 162, Ila, b 

Cilicia, 61, 64, 68, 72; 162, IIa, IIb 

Commagene, 64, 15 

Cydnus, 162, IIb 

Cyprus, 69, 18; 73, 60; 77, 17 


Daianu, 142, 11 

Daie, 37, 14 

Dakala, 46, 46 

Dalain, 79, 9 

Damascus, 116, 88 
Damkina, 142, 14 
Damunu, 25, 46; 43, 51; 49,13; 54, 55; 57, 14 
Dandahulla, 53, 43 

Deri, 39, 60 

Dilbat, 157, XXVI1 
Dilmun, 137, 39, 40 
Dimtu-sha-Dume-ilu, 40, 71 
Dimtu-sha-Mar-biti-etir, 40, 66 
Dimtu-sha-Sulai, 40, 66 
Dub, 143, 6 

Dummuku, 48, 45 
Dunni-Shamash, 39, 61 
Dar-Abdai, 53, 40 
Dir-Abiyata’, 52, 37 
Dir-Akkia, 53, 43 
Dar-Appé, 53, 40 
Dir-Birdada, 53, 43 
Dir-Ishtar, 79, 9; 114, 33 
Dir-Ladini, 52, 37 
Dir-Rudumme, 52, 37 
Ditir-Rukbi, 53, 43 
Diar-Sama’, 53, 40 
Dir-Tané, 53, 40 
Dir-Uait, 53, 44 
Dar-Ugurri, 53, 44 
Dir-Yakini, 53, 48 


INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 


Didr-Yansuri, 52, 37 
Duru, 39, 62 


Ea, 74, 79; 78, 1; 113, 94; 133, 77; 144, 19 

Ebalagga, 140, 4 

Ebarra, 159, 40 

Edomite, 30, 57 

Egypt, 31, 78; 32, 4; 69, 23, 25 

Eharsaggalkurkurra, 144, 8; 145, 12 

Ekallate, 83, 49, 50 

Ekron, $1, 73; 32,7; 33, 33; 69, 22, 25; 70, 30 

Elam(ite), 35, 70; 38, 36, 39, 41; 39, 51, 55; 
40, 1; 41, 2; 42, 26, 27, 33, 37, 38; 46, 83; 
AG 7 ose b0, 173008, 24, 273 66, 5; 66,4; 
75, 96, 98; 76, 102, 10; 78, 31; 82, 35, 37, 38, 
40, 41; 85, 7; 86, 22; 87, 26, 28, 30; 88, 36, 
39, 44; 89, 53, 67; 90, 10, 16, 20; 91, 2, 4; 
92, 19; 133, 88; 158, 31; 159, 33, 34, 36, 38, 
41, 48, 2; 160, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16; 161, 20, 
25, 26, 27, 30, 32, 33 

Elenzash, 28, 27; 59,32; 68, 15 

Elibos, 162, a 

Ellipi, 28, 11; 43, 44; 59, 27, 29; 68, 12; 77, 16; 
86, 12; 88, 45 

Elmunakinne, 114, 32 

Eltekeh, 31, 82; 32, 66; 69, 24 

Emishmish, 144, 4 

Enbilulu, 81, 29 

Enlil, 78, 1; 94, 66; 103, 37; 112, 77; 136, 24; 
145, 22; 149, 5 

Erech (cf. Uruk), 25, 40; 57, 12; 87, 31, 33; 90, 
13°-159,'4,.7, 1,2; 161, 29 

Eridu, 49, 10; 53, 48; 87, 31; 161, 29 

Esagila, 42, 31 

Esima, see EzAma 

Esarhaddon, 162, 38 

Esharra, 135, 4, 6; 139, 58; 144, 4, 8; 146, 32; 
148, 3, [V4; 149, 6, VI4 

Ethiopia, 31, 80; 32, 4; 69, 24, 25 

pees: OT yi? 74, 69,171; ¢7; 187, 39; 162, 


Eusebius, 162a 
Ezdma (EKsima), 36, 76; 64, 14 


Gaga, 142, 11; 143, 5 
Gagal, 112, 77 

Gahilu, 131, 84 

Gahul, 87, 28 

Gambulu, 25, 46; 438, 49; 49, 13; 54, 55; 57,15 
Gamlat, 142, 13 

Gargamish, 131, note 1 

Gashtinnam, 87, 32 

Gaza, 33, 34; 70, 30 

Gingilinish, 79, 10 


193 


Gublite, 30, 53 
Gurumu, 25, 45; 49, 13; 54, 55; 57, 14 
Guzummanu, 51, 26; 52, 34, 37; 56, 6, 10 


Hadabiti, 79, 10 

Hagaranum 25, 1, 48; 49, 14; 64, 56; 57,15 

Haidala, 40, 4; 88, 41; 90, 22 

Halahhi, 112, 83 

Halatu(m), 43, 49 

Halgidda, 36, 76; 64, 13 

Hallushu, 158, 32; 159, 34, 38; 160, 7, 8 

Halule, 44, 60; 88, 47; 90, 13; 160, 17 

Halzi, 112, 76 

Hamanu, 39, 65; 96, 80; 97, 87; 101, 57; 106, 
24: 110, 27; 111, 53; 119, 23; 123, 32; 124, 
40; 129, 59; 132, 70 

Hameza, 53, 46 

Hamranu, 25, 1, 48; 40, 69; 49, 13; 54, 56; 
57, 15 

Hamugios, 162, Ila 

Hani, 142, 12; 148, 5; 147, 11, 15, 19 

Hapisha, 52, 38 

Hararati(te, tum), 26, 1, 55; 54, 57; 57, 17; 
67, 8; 158, 24 

Harbe-iddina, 53, 45 

Harbe-kalbi, 53, 45 

Hardishpi, 26, 72; 27, 5; 58, 25; 67, 10 

Harhar, 29, 32; 68, 16 

Harri-ashlaki, 40, 67 

Harsagkalamma, 25, 1, 40; 54, 52; 57, 12 

Harsuarra, 53, 43 

Harzunu, 43, 45 

Hata, 79, 9 

Hatarikku, 131, 85 

Hatti (Hittite), 114, 18 

Hauae, 52, 36 

Hazael, 92, 23 

Hezekiah, 31, 76; 32, 18; 33, 37; 69, 23; 70, 27, 
30; 77,21; 86, 15 

Hidi, 62, V4 

Hilakku, 61, 64, 72; 62, 83; 77, 24; 86,17; 95, 
71; 104, 53 

Hilmu, 38, 38; 75, 83, 95; 78,29; 86, 20; 159, 36 

Hindaina, 53, 44 

Hindaru, 25, 47; 48, 51; 49, 13; 54, 55; 57, 15 

Hirimme, 26, 58; 55, 58; 57, 18; 67, 8; 77, 14; 
86, 12; 158, 24 

Hittite, 29, 37; 38, 37; 68, 18; 73, 57; 78, 28; 
86, 23; 97, 82: 106, 21; (119, 22; 129, 54; 
131, 64 

Humban-undasha, 45, 82 

Hummahaldashu, 161, 27, 30, 31, 33 

Hupapanu, 38, 39; 75, 84, 96; 78, 30; 86, 20; 
159, 37 


194 


Hurudu, 52, 38 
Husur (Khosr), 79, 11; 98, 90; 101, 60; 105, 
VI2; 114, 22; 115, 41; 124, 43 


Igi-duggu, 149, 10 

Igigi, 146, 24, 25; 149, 3; 150, VII2 

Illubru, 61, 62, 77; 62, 87 

Iltaratu, 53, 46 

Ilte-uba, 40, 75 

Iltuk, 52, 38 

Tlu-ittia, 116, 88 

Imbappa, 49, 8 

Ingiré, 61, 66, 75 

Ishtar, 68, VI2; 78, 1; 94, 68; 98, 92; 99, 44; 
102, 77; 103, 24, 26; 107, 47; 116, 86; 120, 
36; 125, 52; 130, 74, 79; 142, d3; 1438, 4; 
144, 3; 148, 26; 152, XVII5; 154, 22 

Ishtar’s temple, 102, 78 

Ishtar of Arbela, 44, 64 

Ishtar of Nineveh, 44, 63 

Ishtarnahundu, 158, 31; 159, 33 

Ispabara, 28, 12; 59, 27; 68, 13 

Isparirra, 79, 9 


Jerusalem, 32, 15; 33, 28, 40; 70, 27, 29, 31 
Jew, 31, 76; 32, 18; 69, 28; 70, 27; 77, 21 
Joppa, 31, 69 
Judah, 86, 15 


Kakzi, 155, X XITI2 

Kalte-sulai, 39, 62 

Kammusu-nadbi, 30, 56 

Kana, 36, 77; 64, 15 

Kapri-dargild, 108, 59; 121, 48 

Kar-Nabd, 53, 48 

Kar-Ninlil, 112, 79 

Kar-Niri, 79, 8 

Kar-Sennacherib, 29, 29; 59, 32; 68, 16 

Kar-Shamash-nasir, 79, 8 

Kar-Zer-ikisha, 39, 63 

Karduniash, see Babylonia 

Karha, 49, 12 

Kashshitu, 87, 32 

Kassite, 26, 66; 27,2; 58, 20, 25; 67,9 

Kasusi, 157, XXIX3 

Khosr, see Husur 

Kibré, 25, 45; 49, 12; 54, 55; 57, 14 

Kibshu, 36, 76; 64, 14 

Kidmuri-temple, 99, 44 

Kidrina, 52, 37 

Kipranu, 53, 46 

Kirua, 61, 62; 62, 82, 86 

Kish, 24, 22; 25, 40; 50, 20, 21; 51, 25; 54, 52; 
56, 5; 57, 12; 66, 4; 76, 7 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Kisiru, 79, 11; 98,89; 101, 59; 114, 26; 124, 41 
Kissik, 49, 10; 53, 48 

Kia, 36, 77; 64, 14 

Kubruna, 52, 39 

Kubu, 142, 12; 143, 5 

Kudur, 160, 9, 14 

Kudur-nahundu, 40, 1; 41, 2 

Kue, 61, 67; 95,71; 104, 53 

Kukkut, 80, 14 

Kullab, 49, 10; 53, 48 

Kummahlum, 28, 23; 59, 31; 68, 14 
Kurunnam, 87, 32 

Kutain, 52, 36 

Kutha, 25, 41; 49, 15; 50, 18, 22; 51, 23; 57,12 
Kutmuhi, 64, 15 


Lachish, 156, XX V3 

Lahiru, 42, 22; 43, 48 

Lakabra, 48, 45 

Larak, 53, 42; 158, 21 

Larsa, 53, 48; 87, 31; 90, 11 

Libittu, 136, 17; 146, 28; 152, 5 
Li’tau, 25, 49; 49, 14; 54, 56; 57, 15 
Lulé(i), 29, 38; 68, 18; 77, 17; 86, 13 


Madaktu, 40, 3; 41, 6; 88, 40, 42; 90, 21, 23 

Mah, 142, d4; 148, 4; 144, 3 

Mahalliba, 29, 42 

Malahu, 25, 45; 43, 50 

Malihu, 25, 45; 49, 12; 54, 55; 57, 14 

Malikrammu, 30, 57 

Manahhu, 53, 42 

Maniae, 37, 13, 23; 72, 42 

Mannai, 95, 71; 104, 52 

Marad, 52, 38 

Marduk, 78, 1 

Marduk-nadin-ahe, 83, 49 

Marrati (Bitter Sea), 49, 12; 53, 48; 73, 51, 54 

Marubishti, 28, 16; 59, 28; 68, 13 

Masiti, 79, 8 

Masutu, 40, 73 

MAS, 83, VI2; 142, 11, 15 

IVC Sete , 80,14 

Medes, 29, 33; 60, 33; 68, 17; 133, 87 

Melubha, 31, 80; 156, 18 

Menachem, 30, 50 

Menanu, 160, 15, 16; 161, 20, 25 

Merodach-Baladan, 24, 20; 35, 59; 48, 46; 
46, 17; 48, 6; 49, 10; 50, 20; 51, 25, 28, 30; 
56, 5; 66, 4; 71, 35; 76, 8; 82, 37; 85, 6; 
87, 27; 89, 50, c4; 92, 16; 166511; 1b8 aig: 
162, a2 

Meslam temple, 155, XX8; XXI3; XXII1 





INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 


Mitinti, 30, 54; 33, 32 

Moab(ite), 30, 56 

Mushezib-Marduk, 160, 12, 18, 19; 161, 22, 24 
Musri, 114, 31 


Nabatu, 25, 48; 49, 14; 54, 56; 57, 15 

Nabu, 44, 63; 78, 1 

Nabu-bel-shumate, 25, 53; 54, 57; 57, 17 
gprapet ss 46, 16; 82,37; 89, 50; 92, 


Naditu, 40, 69 

Nagite-rakki, 34, 64 

Nagitu, 38, 36, 37; 53, 43; 71, 35; 73, 49, 57; 
75, 80, 83, 94; 78, 27, 28; 85, 10; 86, 19; 
159, 36 

Nagitu-di’bina, 38, 38; 73, 49; 75, 83,95; 78, 29; 
86, 20 

Nampagate, 79, 10 

Nana, 87, 31 

Nannar, 112, 91 

Nergal, 44, 63; 87, 32; 112,90; 142, d3; 143, 6; 
144, 3; 147, 3; 155, XX1; XXI38 

Nergal-nasir, 49, 8; 50, 17; 51, 24 

Nergal-ushezib, 159, 48, 45, 2; 160, 5 

Nimid-laguda, 49, 10; 53, 48 

Nin-4-gal, 97, 83 

Nin-igi-kug, 109, 2; 117, 4; 122, 24; 133, 77 

Nin-kur-ra, 108, 77; 122, 12 

Nineveh, 34, 47; 41, 10 ; 44, 63; 60, 58; 62, 85; 
70, 32; 78, 58; 79, 5,11; 80, 17, 19, 28; 84, 
56, 58; 87, 24; 88, 35; 90, 15; 94, 63; 97, 88; 
98, 89; 101, 58, 59, 61; 103, 23; 108, 62, 75; 
dt, ope tis Stor L140 20% 115. 38° 1175/7: 
121, 49, 10; 124, 42; 126, b5, c4; 127, d9; 
128, 36; 131, 55; 132, 70; 1338, 78; 152, 
XVII14; 153, XVIII4; 164, 15, XIX38 

Ningal, 142, 13 

Ningalkimah, 143, 6 

Ninlil, 112, 79; 142, 13 

Nippur, 25, 40; 49,15; 54, 52; 159, 46, 3 

Nipur, 36, 78, 80; 64, 17; 65, 32, 34, 46; 66, 50; 
41, 38; TT, 22; 127, d6; 132, 73 

Nurabinu, 53, 43 

Nusku, 142, 11; 147, 3 





Opis, 73, 61, 62 


Padi, 31, 74; 32, 14; 33, 33; 69, 22; 70, 26 
Parak-marri, 53, 42 

Parsuash, 43, 48; 88, 44; 91, 9 

Pasheru (Pashiru), 43, 44; 88, 45; 91, 9 
Philistia, 104, 53 

Phul, 162, IIa, 10 

Pillatu (see Billatu), 159, 37 

Polyhister, 162a 


195 


Rab(b)ai, 40, 68 

Rapiku, 43, 50 

Rasd, 39, 56 

Rashi, 160, 10 

Rasu, 40, 68 

Résh-éni, 79, 9 

Rihihu, 25, 44; 49, 12; 54,55; 57, 14 
Rimusu, 61, 61; 79,8 

Ru’ua, 25, 47; 48, 49; 49, 13; 54, 56; 57, 15 
Rukibti, 30, 65; 69, 21 


Saba’, 138, 49 

Sadi-ilu, 52, 38 

Sagabatu-sha-Mardukia, 53, 46 

Sahrina, 52, 38 

Sahriti, 157, XX X3 

Salahatu, 53, 40 

Samuna, 43, 46 

Saphuna, 53, 44 

Sapia, 53, 42 

Sappihimari, 53, 40 

Sar-hudiri, 40, 74 

Sarnelibos, 162, Ila, 20 

Sarpanitu, 42, 32 

Sarrabanu, 53, 42; 158, 21 

Sarrabatu, 53, 40 

Sennacherib-channel, 79, 12; 80, 15 

Sha-amélé, 53,43 

Sha-issur-Adad, 53, 42 

Shabarré, 53, 45 

Shagarakti-shuriash, 93, edge 4 

Shaharratu, 53, 42 

Shala, 83, 48; 142, 14 

Shalmaneser, 93, 1 

Shamash, 44, 63; 63, VI1; 78,1; 87,31; 90, 11; 
Died 6 do0.cos, Lois: 114003. 6, 19 013% 
141, 16; 142, 13; 148,3; 144, 2; 145, 13, 15, 
18; 159, 40 

Shamsimurun(ite) 30, 50 

Shanakidate, 40, 73 

Shapparishu, 79, 8 

Shar-gaz, 142, 11 

Shar-Ur, 113, 3; 142, 11 

Sharim, 64, 13 

Sharma, 36, 76 

Sharruludari, 30, 65; 69, 21 

Sharum, 36, 76 

Sheru’a, 142, 13; 143, 2 

Shibaniba, 79, 9; 112, 82; 114, 33 

Shilibtu, 39, 63 

Shuanna, 42, 28; 54, 54; 57, 1138; 91, 31 

Shulmu-bel, 61, 61 

Shutur-nahundu, 49, 7 


196 


Shuzubu, 34, 53; 38, 46; 41, 17, 20; 43, 54; 
71, 33; 83, 46; 87, 13; 90,13; 156, 14 

Sibi(ttu), 78, 1; 142, 12 

Sibtu-sha-Makkamé, 53, 40 

Sidka, 30, 60; 31, 71; 69, 20 

Sidon, 29, 38, 41; 30, 51; 68, 18; 73, 60; 77, 17; 
86, 13 

Silli-bel, 33, 33 

Sin, 44, 63; 63, VI1; 78, 1; 112, 91; 142, 13; 
143, 3; 144, 2 

Sin-ahe-eriba (Sennacherib), 23, 1; 48,1; 50, 16; 
55, 1; 63, VI6; 66, 1; 76,1, 6; 78, 3; 80, 18; 
82,40; 85,1; 93, 5; 95, 70; 109, 89; 112, 76, 
(830 117, 15122, 205) 126, al? bla els kale 
el, f15" 135, 13°188; 563 141, 10s) 1425 erat: 
143, 1; 144, 1; 146, 30; 147, 1, 20; 148, 1, IV2; 
149, 6, VI1; 150, 1, VIIT1, [X1, X1; 161, XT, 
XII1, XIII4, X1V4, XV1; 152, XVI1, XVII1; 
164, 22 XIX1; 165, XX2.°XXT1, KRM, 
XXITI1; 156, XXIV1, XXV1; 157, XXX1, 
XXXII, XXXTI2; 168, 23, 25, 29; 160, 9; 
161, 34, 35; 162 

Sippar, 25, 41 

Sirara, 106, 25; 107, 51; 119, 23; 120, 40 

Sisirtu, 28, 23; 59, 31; 68, 14 

Suka-Marusi, 52, 39 

Suladu, 53, 45 

Sulai, 48, 46 

Sulu, 79, 9; 114, 34 

Sumer, 35, 74; 39, 48; 42, 30; 49, 9; 54, 54; 
57, 13; 156, 18 

Sumu’an, 113, 96 

Sutu, 49, 8; 77, 13 


Tabalu, 62, V3; 77, 25; 86, 19 

Tagab-lishir, 40, 72 

Tairu, 53, 46 

Tannanu, 49, 8; 51, 27 

Tarbisi, 80, 22; 112, 90; 
XXIf1 

Tarsos, 162 

Tarsus, 61, 66, 75 

Tas, 79, 12; 84, 54 

Tashmetum, 152, XVI1 

Tastiate, 104, 65; 118, 9 

Tebilti, 96, 74, 75; 99, 46, 48; 105, 79, 85; 118, 
13, 15 

Telhunu, 92, 22 


155, XX4, XXI4, 


THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB 


Teme, 113, 96 

Tharsis, 162 

Tiamat, 140, 6, 11; 141, 14, 7, 10; 142, 2 

Tiglath-pileser, 83, 49 

Tigris, 44, 60; 49, 13; 64, 27; 67, 7; 78, 61; 
100, 51; 102, 79; 104, 65; 114, 24 

Til-Barsip, 87, 24; 108, 60; 121, 48 

Til-Humbi, 40, 70 

Til-Uhuri, 40, 68 

Tilgarimmu, 62, V2; 77, 24; 86, 19 

Tillu, 79, 10 

Timnah, 32, 6 

Tishpak, 142, 11 

Tuba’lu, 30, 47, 51; 69, 19; 77, 19; 86, 14 

Tukulti-Urta, 93, 1 

Tu’muna, 25, 43; 49,12; 54,55; 57, 14 

Tumurru, 35, 75; 64, 12; 71, 38; 77, 22; 86, 16 

Tyre, 69, 18; 73, 59; 104, 53 


Ubudu, 25, 44; 49, 12; 54, 55; 57, 14 
Ubulum, 25, 46; 43, 50; 49, 13; 54, 55; 57, 14 
Ukku, 37, 13, 24, 25; 72, 42, 45; 77, 23; 86, 16 
Ukni, 49, 14 

Ulai, 75, 87 

Umman-menanu, 41, 14; 42, 33; 47, 24; 82, 34 
Upiru, 137, note 1 

Uppa, 37, 18; 72, 43 

Ur, 49, 10 

Urra, 112, 89 

Uruk (cf. Erech), 54, 52; 87, 31, 33 

Urumilki, 30, 53 

Ushu, 29, 43; 69, 20 

Usur-amatsa, 87, 32 





Yadakku, 25, 44; 49, 12; 54, 55; 57, 14 

Yakimuna, 52, 38 

Yasubigalli, 26, 66; 27, 2; 58, 20, 25; 67, 9; 
77, 15; 86, 12 

Yati’e, 51, 28 

Yazan, 43, 44 


ZAG-DU (or DI)-NU-TUK-A, 96, 79; 100, 56 
Zamama, 50, 21 
Zaribtu, 29, 42 


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